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Old 05-19-2009
join command and delimiters
I am using the join command to join information from two files that have a common field. Here are some examples:

field1:

99900 543
99903 333
99998 120
10000 222
100001 333
100005 220

field2:

99900 2009-05
99903 2009-05
99998 2009-05
100000 2009-05
100001 2009-05
100005 2009-05

I use the command like this:

join -t " " file1 file2 |sort -un > file3

The result is this:

99900 543 2009-05
99903 333 2009-05
99998 120 2009-05

It seems to stop when it gets to 100000.

So, I tried this:

join file1 file2 |sort -un > file3

I get the same result.

I assume that the default delimiter is white space, no matter how many, so the latter command should work. The former command denotes one space, which is not true, since it actually is two spaces.

So, I am confused as to why this works fine up to 99998, but will go no further.
# 2  
Old 05-19-2009
Code:
field1:

99900 543
99903 333
99998 120
10000 222   ten thousand
100001 333
100005 220

field2:

99900 2009-05
99903 2009-05
99998 2009-05
100000 2009-05  one hundred thousand, not ten thousand
100001 2009-05
100005 2009-05

10000 does not equal 100000
# 3  
Old 05-19-2009
Thanks for your reply. That was a typo on my part. It actually is 100000 and not 10000. It behaves the same as I reported, breaking at 99998.
# 4  
Old 05-19-2009
Then something else is wrong in that data. Instead of trying to type the data, cut and paste the data up here on the forums so we can see what it really is.
# 5  
Old 05-19-2009
Okay, here is a sample, cut and pasted:

file 1

99997 410
99998 410
100000 410
100001 410

file 2

99997 2009-05
99998 2009-04
99998 2009-04
99998 2009-04
99998 2009-04
99998 2009-04
99998 2009-04
99998 2009-05
99999 2009-04
99999 2009-04
99999 2009-04
99999 2009-04
99999 2009-04
99999 2009-04
99999 2009-04
99999 2009-04
99999 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-04
100000 2009-05
100001 2009-04
100001 2009-04
100001 2009-04
100001 2009-04
100001 2009-04
100001 2009-04
100001 2009-05
100002 2009-04
100002 2009-04
100002 2009-04
100002 2009-04
100002 2009-04
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