Thank you very much again for your quick replies on this matter. I had thought that it would work on numerically ordered files, which may thus not necessarily be the case, and indeed, there was a change from something 9000 to over 12000 more or less where the program failed... In the meanwhile I am upgrading the cygwin installation here.
Kind regards, Maarten ================= Dr. Maarten Vanneste International Centre for Geohazards - Norwegian Geotechical Institute Oslo, Norway www.geohazards.no www.ngi.no Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED] DU> Til [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/03/2007 23:06 cc bug-coreutils@gnu.org Emne Re: join [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This suggests that > the join command has a maximum number of lines it can read, is this correct? It depends on your machine and OS. For example, if you have many lines with the same key 'join' has to keep them all in memory, and if they don't fit in memory it will fail. It has to count the lines, too, and the counter is of limited size. > From my test, it turns out to be somewhere around 6600 lines after which > the program terminates. Most likely the problem is somewhere else, then. On 32-bit machines the limit is around 4 billion bytes' worth of lines (or less if your computer has less memory). I'd guess your input files were not sorted. _____________________________ Neither the confidentiality nor the integrity of this message can be guaranteed following transmission on the Internet. The addressee should consider this risk and take full responsibility for use of this message. This e-mail has been swept by Norman antivirus software. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils