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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting HELP: I need to sort a text file in an uncommon manner, can't get desired results Post 302368249 by JakeKatz on Wednesday 4th of November 2009 11:48:22 AM
Old 11-04-2009
pludi:

Awesome, that did it. I keep forgetting the valuable magic (and complexity) of perl.

A thousand thank-you's.

J.

Scrutinizer:

The 'sed' command example did sort from low day of year to highest in each sub-directory. However, I blame my poor wording of my original question. What I needed in the output was a total sort of all file names in a quasi-chronological order (based on filename), oldest first so the output would contain the oldest files, regardless of subdirectory depth, at the top of the file.

Thank you very much for your answer!

J.
Last edited by JakeKatz; 11-04-2009 at 01:00 PM.. Reason: Clarifying my answer
 

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EXIQSUMM(8)                                                   System Manager's Manual                                                  EXIQSUMM(8)

NAME

       exiqsumm - Summarising the queue

SYNOPSIS

       exiqsumm [-a] [-c]

DESCRIPTION

       The  exiqsumm  utility  is a Perl script which reads the output of exim -bp and produces a summary of the messages on the queue.  Thus, you
       use it by running a command such as

         exim -bp | exiqsumm

       The output consists of one line for each domain that has messages waiting for it, as in the following example:

           3   2322   74m   66m  msn.com.example

       This lists the number of messages for the domain, their total volume, and the length of time that the oldest and the newest  messages  have
       been  waiting.   By  default  the output is sorted on the domain name, but exiqsumm has the options -a and -c, which cause the output to be
       sorted by oldest message and by count of messages, respectively.

       The output of exim -bp contains the original addresses in the message, so this also applies to the output from exiqsumm.  No  domains  from
       addresses  generated  by  aliasing or forwarding are included (unless the "one_time" option of the redirect router has been used to convert
       them into 'top level' addresses).

BUGS

       This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches
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SEE ALSO

       exim(8), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/

AUTHOR

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       (but may be used by others).

                                                                  March 26, 2003                                                       EXIQSUMM(8)
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