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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Sort in fields date and columns. Post 302785479 by Don Cragun on Monday 25th of March 2013 05:07:56 PM
Old 03-25-2013
I don't understand why your sorted output doesn't contain all of the lines in your unsorted input, but if all you want is to have your data sorted in decreasing order with year, month, day, and time as your sort keys, the following sort command:
Code:
sort -br -k7.7,7 -k7.1,7.2 -k7.4,7.5 -k8,8 -o output input

will put the following data in the file named output:
Code:
PRUEBA 1191 1270 1 0 5374148 03/25/2013 20:38:30.262300 PROCESS
PRUEBA1 666 0146 1 0 11600064 03/25/2013 20:35:36.360453 PROCESS
PRUEBA 719 0033 1 0 1007752 03/25/2013 20:35:33.049410 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1208 1263 1 0 2564242 03/25/2013 20:34:48.322591 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1167 1391 1 0 14794986 03/25/2013 20:33:41.071634 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1263 0007 1 0 7131292 03/25/2013 16:43:04.159976 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1218 0023 1 0 15687680 03/24/2013 03:09:57.445248 PROCESS
PRUEBA 901 0027 1 0 15548564 03/24/2013 03:08:40.213620 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1142 0007 1 0 11038858 03/24/2013 03:07:52.129286 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1186 0022 1 0 1515770 03/21/2013 10:34:04.214680 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1178 0022 1 0 1687770 03/21/2013 10:34:04.139296 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1175 0022 1 0 11354354 03/21/2013 10:34:04.096087 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1232 0002 1 0 6602856 03/21/2013 10:34:04.043798 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1228 0002 1 0 1769492 03/21/2013 10:34:04.012897 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1230 0002 1 0 9531456 03/21/2013 10:34:04.012895 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1128 0022 1 0 7278834 03/21/2013 10:34:03.878008 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1184 0022 1 0 9023516 03/21/2013 10:34:02.250458 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1182 0002 1 0 15323318 03/21/2013 10:34:02.108932 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1179 0002 1 0 6193256 03/21/2013 10:34:02.086872 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1172 0022 1 0 15192186 03/21/2013 10:34:02.077381 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1169 0022 1 0 962692 03/21/2013 10:34:02.064175 PROCESS
PRUEBA 1135 0022 1 0 8429658 03/21/2013 10:34:01.686071 PROCESS
PRUEBA 899 0022 1 0 5456014 03/21/2013 10:33:00.883023 PROCESS

if the data you showed in the first message in this thread is contained in the file named input.
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

column

COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME

     column -- columnate lists

SYNOPSIS

     column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The column utility formats its input into multiple columns.  Rows are filled before columns.  Input is taken from file operands, or, by
     default, from the standard input.	Empty lines are ignored.

     The options are as follows:

     -c      Output is formatted for a display columns wide.

     -s      Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.

     -t      Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table.  Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
	     the characters supplied using the -s option.  Useful for pretty-printing displays.

     -x      Fill columns before filling rows.

ENVIRONMENT

     The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7).

EXIT STATUS

     The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

	   (printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ; 
	   printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" ; 
	   ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t

SEE ALSO

     colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)

HISTORY

     The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

BUGS

     Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.

BSD
								   July 29, 2004							       BSD
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