Re: join not joining more then 9 lines

From: Andrew Townsend (Andrew.Townsend_at_BISYS.COM)
Date: 10/26/04

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    Thank you all for your responses. You are correct. I will sort them, join
    them, and then resort them. Then they should join as what would normally be
    expected.

    Enjoy your day!

    Drew

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    I think the problem is that join assumes alphabetic, not numeric sequence.
    So "10" is less than "9" and it gives up in disgust. The man page for join
    would suggest that you need to do a normal sort - just sort, or sort -b -
    before you do your join. If you need it in numeric order, do a sort -n on
    the result. 

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> Subject: Re: join not joining more then 9 lines
>
>
> I try to join 2 files but join will only join the first 9
> lines. The two
> files I am trying to join are:
>
> # cat tot-data-BU.041025
>      1  Backedup
>      2  0.647
>      3  0.756
>      4  1.576
>      5  2.191
>      6  2.560
>      7  3.300
>      8  3.770
>      9  4.629
>     10  5.024
>     11  5.887
>     12  6.783
>     13  7.386
>     14  7.953
>     15  8.533
>
> and
>
> #cat tot-data-RES.041025
>      1  Restored
>      2  0.0
>      3  0.0
>      4  0.0
>      5  0.0051
>      6  0.0051
>      7  0.0051
>      8  0.0051
>      9  0.0101
>     10  0.0101
>     11  0.0101
>     12  0.0101
>     13  0.0101
>     14  0.0101
>     15  0.0101
>
> when I do a      join tot-data-BU.041025  tot-data-RES.041025
> I get:
>
> 1 Backedup Restored
> 2 0.647 0.0
> 3 0.756 0.0
> 4 1.576 0.0
> 5 2.191 0.0051
> 6 2.560 0.0051
> 7 3.300 0.0051
> 8 3.770 0.0051
> 9 4.629 0.0101
>
> Only 9 lines! Is this a limitation of join, or is it something with my
> output?
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