its not a bug, its limitation

OBLus <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:58:27 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
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hi                         2007-04-30

in textutils package program called "join" should have -sort option
which could sort (ASC or DESC) both fields -1 1 -1 2 before two files
will be compared...

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