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Old 03-11-2008
vakharia Mahesh vakharia Mahesh is offline
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Smile sort by date
You can use sort -k1.??(starting field no),ending filed no.
say for example for your date XXXX_2008021213.DAT to sort this on year
mth and date order you can use
sort -k1.6,1.9 -k1.10,1.11 -k1.12,1.13 input_file > output file
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