From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 16:48:32 EST
hmm, sorry, i see what you're trying to do. sort on year, thenmonth,
then day. sounds like you're getting into awk/sed territory. or perl.
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:28, Mills, John T wrote:
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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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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