RE: comm command bug while using with Tilda delimited files

[Eric Blake]

> Thanks Brian for a quick response. Infact I do sort the file prior to 
> processing 
> it. But I use the following:
>  
> sort -t"~" -k1,1 file1 -o file1

> Looks like I will have to settle for a normal sort rather than key based sort 
> for this to work.

Or you could propose a patch to comm to accept -k and -t, so that comm and
sort can agree on how the files were sorted.

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