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Re: Join tab delimiter


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Join tab delimiter
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:18:57 +0100
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Or there's even this more portable alternative (although it costs a fork):
> $ join -t `printf '\t'` file1 file2

This requires more quotes, so that word splitting won't gobble the tab.

$ join -t "`printf '\t'`" file1 file2

Andreas.

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