HELP: I need to sort a text file in an uncommon manner, can't get desired results

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4 Weeks Ago

JakeKatz

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Location: Ottawa, ON. Canada

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Excellent!

That did exactly what I needed.

And I just remember mom saying "Never bite the hand that feeds you"

Thanks for your help!

J.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scrutinizer

Hi Jake, that is very gentle since you really wrote that quite clearly

. Anyway just for completeness then:

Code:

sed 's|.*\(/[^/]\+\)\(/[^/]\+\)\(/[^/]\+\)|\3\2\1 &|' dirlist.txt| sort -nt'/'|sed 's|[^ ]* ||'

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