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Old 05-10-2005
unix join !

just wandering if anyone knows what kind of algorithm unix join
command is using to join 2 files.
Thanks!
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Old 05-10-2005
coreutils

well the exact answer is in coreutils/src/join.c ...

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/

HTH
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Old 05-10-2005
thanks for that
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