On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ;-) > this line works well too sort -t- -k3n -k2 --sort=month yourfile.txt > -- > 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 > -- http://etvillage.blogspot.com/ -- 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
