Re: Error with command 'join'

[Bob Proulx]

Hector G. wrote:
> I have two files listed below, Is there something wrong with my file or
> with the command 'join'?

Thanks for the report.  However I cannot recreate your failure.  I
tried both coreutils-6.9 as well as the latest version.

> address@hidden tmp]# join -a 1  aa.txt bb.txt 
>  AAaaaaaaa 1 2 3 4 5 6a
> 12 bbbbbbb 1 2 3 4 5 6n
>  CCccccccccccc 1 2 3 4 5 6c
>  DDdddddddddd 1 2 3 4 5 6d
>  EEeeeeeeeeee 1 2 3 4 5 6e

The result I get is:

  join -a 1 aa.txt bb.txt 
  11 aaaaaaa 1 2 3 4 5 6a AA
  12 bbbbbbb 1 2 3 4 5 6n
  13 ccccccccccc 1 2 3 4 5 6c CC
  14 dddddddddd 1 2 3 4 5 6d DD
  15 eeeeeeeeee 1 2 3 4 5 6e EE

You may want to try a pristine version to determine if it is upstream
coreutils or if it is due to a patch that has been applied to it
downstream.  In which case you might as well try the latest version.
Here is the latest test release.  Please try it and see if it solves
the problem.  If so then I believe it must be in a downstream patch.
In which case the problem should be reported to your vendor.

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.91.tar.gz   (8.7MB)
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.91.tar.lzma (3.6MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.91.tar.gz.sig
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.91.tar.lzma.sig

Bob