04-08-2009
Compare these two lines and delete the old entry
I have a unique situation here which looks easier at first but I am not able to solve it.
# SSort UNIX 10/14/2005 10/13/2010 "tox" "9000/800" 16 * * * V849-6-1
# SSort UNIX 11/31/1996 11/02/2010 "tox" "9000/800" 16 * * * W237-S-2
I have a text file with two or multiple values like this and what I am trying to do is compare these lines and just keep the line with the latest date on it.
Note: every line have two dates but the one we have to look at is the second date
10/13/2010 in first line and 11/02/2010
in second line.
Any way to do it using unix commands?
I can compare two dates with this command and print the required one
if the file name is tmp I can do this and get the latest date
cat tmp|awk '{print $5}'|sort -t '|' -k3n -k1n -k2n|sed '$!d'
but what I want is the entire line like this
# SSort UNIX 11/31/1996 11/02/2010 "tox" "9000/800" 16 * * * W237-S-2
not only date value.
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DP(8) [nmh-1.5] DP(8)
NAME
dp - parse dates 822-style
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/mh/dp [-form formatfile] [-format string] [-width columns] [-version] [-help] dates ...
DESCRIPTION
Dp is a program that parses dates according to the ARPA Internet standard. It also understands many non-standard formats, such as those
produced by TOPS-20 sites and some UNIX sites using ctime(3). It is useful for seeing how nmh will interpret a date.
The dp program treats each argument as a single date, and prints the date out in the official 822-format. Hence, it is usually best to
enclose each argument in quotes for the shell.
To override the output format used by dp, the -format string or -format file switches are used. This permits individual fields of the
address to be extracted with ease. The string is simply a format string and the file is simply a format file. See mh-format(5) for the
details.
Here is the default format string used by dp:
%<(nodate{text})error: %{text}%|%(putstr(pretty{text}))%>
which says that if an error was detected, print the error, a `:', and the date in error. Otherwise, output the 822-proper format of the
date.
FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile
PROFILE COMPONENTS
None
SEE ALSO
ap(8), Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages (RFC-822)
DEFAULTS
`-format' default as described above
`-width' default to the width of the terminal
CONTEXT
None
BUGS
The argument to the -format switch must be interpreted as a single token by the shell that invokes dp. Therefore, one must usually place
the argument to this switch inside quotes.
MH.6.8 11 June 2012 DP(8)