Re[2]: its not a bug, its limitation

[OBLus]

hi                         2007-05-01



I very thank you for reply :)

> Please keep replies on the list, so that others may chime in with
> solutions, and so that others may reference the archives for the answers
> you are given.

sorry for that, i just "man join" and found this email, so I wrote as
fast I can and forgot about list

> If you use bash, there are non-portable extensions such as:

> join -options... <(sort -options... file1) <(sort -options... file2)

> that make it very easy to sort two files then join the results using
> process substitution.

> But even sticking to portable tools, you can always use temporary files,
> or perhaps this is an instance where an awk script is the way to go.

I will try this solution with redirection (< if I correct understand you)...

I can't (don't want to) use temporary files - not in this case...

AWK is great! but it's to hard for me and I have
no time to lern it right now....


btw. sorry for wasting your precious time and thank you one more time!
:)


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