Subject: Re: bug#16468: join

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:31:59 +0000

On 01/16/2014 06:10 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> [re-adding the list, with permission]
> 
> On 01/16/2014 10:46 AM, barry kesner wrote:
>>   How do you tell join this without resorting.  The files are huge!
> 
> Unfortunately, there isn't any really good way, short of re-processing
> the files to make the data appear sorted in the order join expects.

Note we are working on merging sort, uniq, and join key selection
and comparison code, to support this directly.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-09/msg00047.html

thanks,
Pádraig.