Re: join

[Eric Blake]

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According to address@hidden on 3/13/2007 7:19 AM:
> The final
> solution was to split up my two input files and join the smaller files, and
> afterwards using cat to put them back into one big file. This suggests that
> the join command has a maximum number of lines it can read, is this correct

Thanks for the report.  What version of coreutils?  What platform?  Was
your version compiled with large-file support?  There is no inherent limit
in the join code, but if the executable lacks large file support, that
might explain it stopping after 2 gig of data processing.

Also, are you sure your files are properly sorted?  It sounds like they
are, from your description, but that is a common enough user bug that it
is worth asking.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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