Sorting by date

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Sat Mar 5 12:08:28 UTC 2011


On 5 March 2011 11:23, Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:
> erikmccaskey64 <erikmccaskey64 at zoho.com> writes:
>
>> Original:
>> Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi
>> Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi
>> Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi
>> Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi
>> Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi
>> Feb 27 2011 23:05 SOMETHING 2011.02.24.avi
>>
>>
>> Output:
>> Feb 27 2011 23:05 SOMETHING 2011.02.24.avi
>> Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi
>> Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi
>> Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi
>> Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi
>> Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi
>>
>>
>> How could I get the output where the newest file is at the top?
>
> sort  -k3nr -k1Mr -k2nr -k4gr  your_file
>

Unfortunately the OP, having received several suggestions, has not
bothered to come back and either offer thanks for the help or further
explain the problem. :(

Colin




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