Bug#1068864: coreutils: join -a3 errors "invalid field number" even when no field number given

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/04/2024 14:12, наб wrote:

Package: coreutils
Version: 9.1-1
Version: 9.4-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

        $ join -a3 /dev/null /dev/null
        join: invalid field number: ‘3’

Not sure where field 3 came from here.

Indeed, that looks to be a copy n paste issue in:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/6f63d53e1

I'll s/field/file/ upstream.

thanks,
Pádraig