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Re: Does Unix join have a limit on the number of lines?

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On 1/30/21 12:28 PM, Robert Peirce wrote:
> I just discovered a join command I have been using for years stopped 
> working on 11/27.  The command is
> 
> join -a1 ~/daily/Input ~/weekly/Input
> 
> What I am trying to do is join the date matched daily and weekly lines 
> but include all the daily lines.  The data exists to date but the join 
> stops at 11/27.
> 
> The file structures haven't change.  Nothing has changed as far as I can 
> tell.  The output includes all the daily lines but doesn't include any 
> of the weekly lines after 11/27.  I have no idea why.

As a test I tried tailing the last ten lines from each file and joining 
them.  That worked.  I also tried deleting the first couple of hundred 
lines from the two files.  That didn't work.  Odd.

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Does Unix join have a limit on the number of lines? Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2021-01-30 12:28 -0500
  Re: Does Unix join have a limit on the number of lines? Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2021-01-30 12:48 -0500
    Re: Does Unix join have a limit on the number of lines? Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2021-01-30 14:14 -0500

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