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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sorting prob Post 302251457 by zaxxon on Monday 27th of October 2008 07:42:06 AM
Old 10-27-2008
sort works with fields. It can't know by this input where a field begins and where it ends because there is no field separator. Because of this many dates are written in format

Code:
yyyymmdd

which is easy to sort.
Either way, I think you got to reformat your date in some way before working with sort, depending on how you want to use it.

Here an example:
Code:
awk '{print substr($1,5,4) substr($1,3,2) substr($1,1,2) }' infile| sort -n

If you need the old format, you see the substr functions above and just read up about them in some awk manual and reformat your now sorted date back.
 

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NAME

       Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitLvalueSubstr - Use 4-argument "substr" instead of writing "substr($foo, 2, 6) = $bar".

AFFILIATION

       This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

DESCRIPTION

       Conway discourages the use of "substr()" as an lvalue, instead recommending that the 4-argument version of "substr()" be used instead.

	   substr($something, 1, 2) = $newvalue;     # not ok
	   substr($something, 1, 2, $newvalue);      # ok

       The four-argument form of "substr()" was introduced in Perl 5.005.  This policy does not report violations on code which explicitly
       specifies an earlier version of Perl (e.g. "use 5.004;").

CONFIGURATION

       This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

SEE ALSO

       "substr" in perlfunc (or "perldoc -f substr").

       "4th argument to substr" in perl5005delta

AUTHOR

       Graham TerMarsch <graham@howlingfrog.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Graham TerMarsch.  All rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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