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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions How join works and the specific parameters to my problem? Post 302413286 by methyl on Thursday 15th of April 2010 06:36:46 AM
Old 04-15-2010
Working totally from your post and copying the data and the first command, mine gives output:

Code:
10015|GEOL |158|NATURAL DISASTERS|Rezaie Boroon Mohammad Hassan|1.64
10016|GEOL |158|NATURAL DISASTERS|Hamane Angelique C.|1.93
10020|ART | 101A |WORLD ART|Anderson Paul A|1.19
10021|ART | 101B |WORLD ART|Aguilar-Moreno Jose Manuel|2.59


I guess we need to know what Operating System and Shell and also version of join.

Code:
My "join" is this (According to the "what" command):

what /usr/bin/join

/usr/bin/join:
         $Revision: B.11.11_LR
         Fri Oct 27 00:58:04 PDT 2000 $



---------- Post updated at 11:36 ---------- Previous update was at 11:22 ----------
Quote:
The original data files were Excel files that the campus generated. We converted the files to CSV before extracting the information. So I only know as far as downloading the file?
We need to check the format of the data files. This "sed" just shows funny characters and record terminators. A normal unix text file will be terminated with a "newline" character which is displayed as "$" in this example.

Code:
sed -n l Courses2.txt

10015|GEOL |158|NATURAL DISASTERS|Rezaie Boroon Mohammad Hassan|$
10016|GEOL |158|NATURAL DISASTERS|Hamane Angelique C.|$
10020|ART | 101A |WORLD ART|Anderson Paul A|$
10021|ART | 101B |WORLD ART|Aguilar-Moreno Jose Manuel| $

If I deliberately make the file incorrect by converting it to Microsoft text format it will look like this. This may be enough to upset your "join" but mine still works.

Code:
sed -n l Courses2.txt

10015|GEOL |158|NATURAL DISASTERS|Rezaie Boroon Mohammad Hassan|\r$
10016|GEOL |158|NATURAL DISASTERS|Hamane Angelique C.|\r$
10020|ART | 101A |WORLD ART|Anderson Paul A|\r$
10021|ART | 101B |WORLD ART|Aguilar-Moreno Jose Manuel| \r$

Last edited by zaxxon; 04-15-2010 at 08:03 AM.. Reason: code tags, ty
 

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GCHEM3D(1)						       gnome-chemistry-utils							GCHEM3D(1)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

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