Re: join bug?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Erez PERELMAN on 9/19/2006 11:44 AM:
> hey, i think there is a bug in join command.  i'm joining two sorted
> files and there is no joining for an expected mapping. here is the example:
> 
> f1:
> 79 53
> 
> f2:
> 791 834
> 79 82

Not a bug.  join requires its inputs to be sorted, otherwise you get
arbitrary behavior.  f2 was not sorted (at least, not in the C locale).

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