04-11-2007
Date Sorting
Hi,
I have a list of files that take on the format ABCDE_yymmdd and wish to sort them in ascending date order. I can't use the unix time stamp for the file as this could possibly be different from the date given in the file name.
Does anyone know of any way this can be done using unix shell scripting and/or awk(nawk)?
What i already have:
constructFileList()
{
if [ -f $DataDir/$FileListFile ]
then
rm -f $DataDir/$FileListFile
fi
for FILE in `ls -1 $DataDir/ABCDE_??????.dat`
do
echo $(basename $FILE)|nawk -f sort.awk
done |sort|while read FILENAME
do
echo ${FILENAME#??????} >> $DataDir/$FileListFile
done
}
The sort.awk script:
function prisort(STRING)
{
return_str = substr(STRING,11,2) substr(STRING,9,2) substr(STRING,7,2) STRING
return return_str
}
#Main Routine
{
print prisort($1)
}
Thanks
Last edited by LiquidChild; 04-11-2007 at 05:38 AM..
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