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Re:Doing a database join with CSV files by ainar-g on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:53PM (#21925360)
> GNU Join

The join utility is actually a part of POSIX[1], so every UNIX should have one. Here's one from OpenBSD[2], for example. The GNU version probably has more flags though.

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/j...

[2] https://man.openbsd.org/join.1

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Re:Doing a database join with CSV files by dmd on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @08:15AM (#21927881)
Plus POSIX join requires pre-sorted inputs.

BTW, there's never a bad time to mention http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/ ...

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Re:Doing a database join with CSV files by ramraj07 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @09:37PM (#21926293)
Yeah my colleague went down the rabbit hole and swore never again. Good luck with carriage return bugs!
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