Dave Cross wrote: > On 26 February 2010 13:40, Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Richard Cahilig wrote: >>> Your help is very much appreciated. Thanks. >> while read a b; do s1=`date --date "$b" +%s`; echo $s1 $a $b;done <yourfile.txt | sort -nr > > Very nice. Just one small addition - pass the output through cut to > get back to the original data format: > > while read a b; do s1=`date --date "$b" +%s`; echo $s1 $a $b;done > <yourfile.txt | sort -nr | cut -f 2- -d ' ' I left that as an exercise for the reader ;-) -- 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
