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Old 06-04-2008
risshanth risshanth is offline
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How to sort a field in a file having date values
Hi All,

I am having a pipe delimited file .In this file the 3rd column is having date values.I need to get the min date and max date from that file.

I have used
cut -d '|' test.dat -f 3|sort -u

But it is not sorting the date .How to sort the date column using unix commands

Thanks
Deepak