Re: join problem?

[Paul Eggert]

Jorge Infante <address@hidden> writes in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-08/msg00034.html>:

>  I'm running:
> join -t "|" -j 1 -a 2 file1 file2 
>  The result is:
> 163|reg000524
>  I have a record with value "163" in file2.
>  Is a bug?

No, because join assumes that the input is sorted lexicographically.
Your input was sorted numerically, which is a different thing.
Perhaps "join" should have an option to assume numeric sort, but
that would be an enhancement.