From: Mills, John T (John.T.Mills@ERAC.COM)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 16:28:56 EST
Yes I looked at that first. The output is not correct.
sort -nr does a sort from left to right, sorting
12302003
12292003
...
01102004
What I really need to do is sort on the last 4, then on the first
4 characters. Unfortunately "filename" varies in length.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
John
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John Jolet
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 2:07 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: [aix-l] Sorting Question
sort -nr.
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 13:56, Mills, John T wrote:
> Give an output of 'ls -1 .':
>
> filename.image.01102004
> filename.image.12252003
> filename.image.12262003
> filename.image.12272003
> filename.image.12282003
> filename.image.12292003
> filename.image.12302003
>
> How could I use sort or/and awk to sort the list like this?
>
> filename.image.12252003
> filename.image.12262003
> filename.image.12272003
> filename.image.12282003
> filename.image.12292003
> filename.image.12302003
> filename.image.01102004
>
> Thanks,
>
> John T. Mills
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