join(1) reject -a option's argument with space

Issue #114 new
Takehiko NOZAKI repo owner created an issue

join(1) reject space character between -a option and its argument.

without space work file.

$ join -a1 -a2 ...

but with space may fail with showing usage.

$ join -a 1 -a 2 ...
usage: join [-a fileno | -v fileno] [-e string] [-j fileno field]
            [-o list] [-t char] [-1 field] [-2 field] file1 file2

Comments (2)

  1. Takehiko NOZAKI reporter

    according to manpage, it is intentional and effort for keeping backword compatibility. FreeBSD/OpenBSD kill this silly anachronism 11years before. how slower NetBSD's time!

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