On 26 February 2010 13:40, Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 $b;done <yourfile.txt | sort -nr Very nice. Just one small addition - pass the output through cut to get back to the original data format: while read a b; do s1=`date --date "$b" +%s`; echo $s1 $a $b;done <yourfile.txt | sort -nr | cut -f 2- -d ' ' Dave... -- 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
