GNU bug report logs - #6903
join: support numeric keys

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Bernhard Schiffner <bernhard <at> schiffner-limbach.de>

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:57:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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Message #14 received at 6903 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bernhard Schiffner <bernhard <at> schiffner-limbach.de>
Cc: 6903 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6903: join: improve paralleles to sort?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:22:13 -0700

On 08/24/2010 11:57 PM, Bernhard Schiffner wrote:
> 2146427	/LBAtoJM/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-3.2.0.cr3.jar
> 214618118	/temp/marketing_ms/emails.dat

That won't work, because the two lines are not sorted correctly.
Recall that join uses lexicographic comparison, not numeric.
Its input must be sorted lexicographically.

You can sort its output numerically later, if you prefer numeric
order.
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