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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: "Andy Hall" <fixpertise-consulting@comcast.net>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Join command fails to output fields on input file with DOS line endings.
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 06:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <937822985.20190723094959@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009e01d540c6$c1b11d50$451357f0$@comcast.net>

Greetings, Andy Hall!

> This behavior of join surprised me: 

> $ join -1 3 <(echo a b col3  c d | unix2dos) <(echo col3 f2 f3 f4 f5)
>  f2 f3 f4 f5

> Join parses the input line well enough to execute the join, but the
> presence of the DOS line endings suppresses the
> output of fields from the first input.

> Compare with

> $ join -1 3 <(echo a b col3  c d) <(echo col3 f2 f3 f4 f5)
> col3 a b c d f2 f3 f4 f5

> which is correct.  

> Here is a weirder example where the join field is missing and the output is reversed!

> NOK
> $ join <(echo col F1 | unix2dos) <(echo col F2)
>  F2 F1

This makes perfect sense and actually explains what you see.
1. ("col", "F1\r") & ("col", "F2")
2. ("col", "F1\r", "F2")
3. printing "col F1\r F2"
4. obvious result: "col F1", then \r place cursor at the beginning of the
line, then " F2" overprints the line beginning.
5. observed result: " F2 F1"

> OK
> $ join <(echo col F1) <(echo col F2)
> col F1 F2

As Eliot said, don't do that.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, July 23, 2019 9:45:05

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-23  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-22 19:50 Andy Hall
2019-07-22 19:58 ` Eliot Moss
2019-07-23 15:15   ` Andy Hall
2019-07-23  6:50 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2019-07-23 12:18 ` Lemke, Michael  ST/HZA-ZIC2

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