Thanks to everyone that replied. John Leadeham sent me the simplest solution. Which was: sort -k10.7n,10.10n -k10.1,10.2n -k10.4,10.5n filename My problem was that I'm using an old sort command which for some reason doesn't work when using the -k option. Even though it is stated in the man pages. Thanks again Original posting: I'm having trouble getting a text file to sort properly. I have a text file with a date (ie. 02/14/2002) in the 10th field. I want to sort the file from earliest to latest but I'm having a problem getting the correct sort command that will first sort it by year and then by month, day. Sorry for such an elementary question. I've checked out the man pages, but nothing seems to work. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Sep 23 09:47:19 2003
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Thu Mar 03 2016 - 06:43:20 EST