Richard Cahilig wrote: > Hi, > > Guys I need your help, I have a text file which contains these data > below, and I want to sort it by date in descending order. I tried to use > sort -rn command but it gives me different output. I know I missing > something but I just can't figure it out. > > files 03-Sep-2009 [...] > files 07-Jul-2006 > > Your help is very much appreciated. Thanks. while read a b; do s1=`date --date "$b" +%s`; echo $s1 $a $b;done <yourfile.txt | sort -nr -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
