Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!yA4LonBpw0RAI/fS1Bsidg.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Peirce Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc Subject: Re: Does Unix join have a limit on the number of lines? Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 12:48:07 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: yA4LonBpw0RAI/fS1Bsidg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc:225 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.