GNU bug report logs - #6366
join can't join on numeric fields

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From: Alex Shinn <alexshinn <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: join can't join on numeric fields
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 14:19:24 +0900

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Hi,

Ideally join should be able to handle files sorted in any order
that sort provides, but as a bare minimum it should at least
be able to join files sorted on numeric fields.

The attached simple patch provides -n, --numeric-sort
options to this effect.

-- 
Alex

[join.c.diff (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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