As I understand your problem, you want to sort the file on the colored date fields don't you?
If this is the case, you are in trouble with the sort command as it doesn't sort on plain text dates AFAIK.
So, first you have to loop through your file and convert the date field into some sort of ISO date format like 2009-09-13 21:15:07 and than, pipe it into sort.
Or use awk with this suggestion:
Last edited by ripat; 09-14-2009 at 05:29 AM..
Reason: logic error on the sort key
I'm looking to edit a file which contains various data including date.(ddmmyyyy)
I want to sort by date and then count the number of different dates found
Any ideas how to acheive this
Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I have written a shell script that takes the current date on the server and stores it in a file.
echo get /usr/home/data-`date '+%Y%d'`.xml> /usr/local/sandeep/GetFILE.ini
I call this GetFILE.ini file from an sftp program to fetch a file from /usr/home/ as location. The file is in... (3 Replies)
Hello World~
Please Help Me(BASH)
input:
dde,2007.8.25,891
dde,2007.8.23,356
dfe,2007.10.12,341
cba,2005.12.5,342
I wanna know how to sort by the date(2005.12.5)
output:
cba,2005.12.5,342
dde,2007.8.23,356
dde,2007.8.25,891
dfe,2007.10.12,341
Thanks in advance (3 Replies)
Hi Guys ,
Please help me I am having a requirement as below:
$ ls -i log* | head
66486532 log1
66486662 log10
66486663 log11
66486664 log12
66486665 log13
66486533 log2
66486534 log3
66486535 log4
66486584 log5
66486590 log6
This id listing the first 10 files starting with log.
... (4 Replies)
these are two records(adr.txt)trying to sort with the the code expl below.
5423|336110|2730 Pierce St|Ste 300|Sioux City|IA|Woodbury|51104|3765||42518651|96405013|A|2|3|U|12/08/2009
5423|14462335|624 JONES ST|STE 5400|Sioux City|IA|Woodbury|51101|||42496648|96400644|A|8|2|U |12/24/2009
nawk... (3 Replies)
The problem:
I have a task to give a my boss:
1. the files and directory sizes in human readable form: du -h
2. He also wants me to give him the date stamp on the files and directories. something like ls -R or sort by date
Does anyone have a script that can do this efficiently (I am... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to sort the below data using sort command.
temp.dat
H|S1-511091486889|27-Jul-2011 00:00:00
H|S1-511091486823|27-Jul-2011 00:00:00
H|S1-511091486757|27-Jul-2011 00:00:00
L|S1-511091486889|1
L|S1-511091486823|1
L|S1-511091486757|1
sort -t "|" -k2 -k1 temp.dat
My... (5 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have a filelist collected from another server , now want to sort the output using date/time stamp filed.
- Filed 6, 7,8 are showing the date/time/stamp.
Here is the input:
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
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nawk '$1=="Date" {d=$(NF-2);next} $1=="Queue" {q=$NF;next} $1=="Forms"{print q, $NF, d}' OFS='|' printfile.log
I have this script working. Please let me know how to sort by Queue and then Date. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Daniel Gate
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
look
look(1) General Commands Manual look(1)NAME
look - Finds lines in a sorted list
SYNOPSIS
look [-df] [-tcharacter] string [file]
The look command prints all lines in a sorted file that begin with string.
OPTIONS
Uses dictionary order; only letters, digits, tabs, and spaces are used in comparisons. Searches without regard to case; treats uppercase
and lowercase as equivalent. Ignores character and characters following it in the search string. If you specify look -tC ABCDE, the
string ABCDE would become (in effect) AB, with CDE being ignored. This option is primarily for shell scripts, in which more than one
string is being processed.
DESCRIPTION
If no file is specified, look searches in the system word list /usr/share/dict/words, with the options -df assumed by default.
The look command uses binary search.
The -d and -f options affect comparisons as in sort.
NOTES
In order to use the -f option, you must first sort file with the sort -f command; otherwise, look displays only lowercase items.
If you do not specify -f, but specify a file (such as /usr/share/dict/words) that has been sorted with sort -f, look may not produce any
output.
EXAMPLES
To search a sorted file called sortfile for all lines that begin with the string as, enter: look as sortfile To search the system word list
for all words beginning with smi, enter: look smi
This might result in: smile smirk smith smithereens Smithfield Smithson smithy smitten
FILES
System word list.
SEE ALSO
Commands: grep(1), sort(1), spell(1)look(1)