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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with sort command Post 302589076 by Yoda on Tuesday 10th of January 2012 06:12:14 PM
Old 01-10-2012
Help with sort command

I have a file with the following content:-

181268525,0640613864,B,113,22-dec-2011 14:12:08,
181268525,0640613864,C,113,25-dec-2011 14:18:50,
181268525,0640613864,L,113,26-dec-2011 14:07:46,
181268525,0640613864,X,113,01-jan-2012 16:57:45,
181268525,0640613864,X,113,04-jan-2012 14:13:27,
181268525,0640613864,X,113,29-dec-2011 14:04:12,
181268525,0640613864,Y,113,02-jan-2012 13:58:08,
181268525,0640613864,Y,113,05-jan-2012 14:14:18,
181268525,0640613864,Y,113,08-jan-2012 14:11:43,

I am running the sort command on this file to sort by the date, but somehow I am not getting the expected results:-

cat test | sort -t',' -k 5.10,5.14 -k 5.15,5.18M -k 5.19,5.20
181268525,0640613864,B,113,22-dec-2011 14:12:08,
181268525,0640613864,X,113,29-dec-2011 14:04:12,
181268525,0640613864,L,113,26-dec-2011 14:07:46,
181268525,0640613864,C,113,25-dec-2011 14:18:50,
181268525,0640613864,Y,113,02-jan-2012 13:58:08,
181268525,0640613864,Y,113,05-jan-2012 14:14:18,
181268525,0640613864,X,113,04-jan-2012 14:13:27,
181268525,0640613864,Y,113,08-jan-2012 14:11:43,
181268525,0640613864,X,113,01-jan-2012 16:57:45,

01-jan-2012 is appearing after 08-jan-2012. Please assist.

Last edited by Yoda; 01-10-2012 at 07:29 PM..
 

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mdbFontset(5)							 The m17n Library						     mdbFontset(5)

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mdbFontset - Fontset DESCRIPTION
The m17n library loads a fontset definition from the m17n database by the tags <fontset, FONTSET-NAME>. The plist format of the data is as follows: FONTSET ::= PER-SCRIPT * PER-CHARSET * FALLBACK * PER-SCRIPT ::= '(' SCRIPT PER-LANGUAGE + ')' PER-LANGUAGE ::= '(' LANGUAGE FONT-SPEC-ELEMENT + ')' PER-CHARSET ::= '(' CHARSET FONT-SPEC-ELEMENT + ')' FALLBACK ::= FONT-SPEC-ELEMENT FONT-SPEC-ELEMENT ::= '(' FONT-SPEC [ FLT-NAME ] ')' FONT-SPEC ::= '(' [ FOUNDRY FAMILY [ WEIGHT [ STYLE [ STRETCH [ ADSTYLE ]]]]] REGISTRY [ OTF-SPEC ] [ LANG-SPEC ] ')' SCRIPT is a symbol of script name (e.g. latin, han) or nil. LANGUAGE is a two-letter symbol of language name code defined by ISO 639 (e.g. ja, zh) or nil. FONT-SPEC is to specify properties of a font. FOUNDRY to REGISTRY are symbols corresponding to Mfoundry to Mregistry property of a font. See m17nFont for the meaning of each property. OTF-SPEC is a symbol specifyng the required OTF features. The symbol name has the following syntax. OTF-SPEC-NAME ::= ':otf=' SCRIPT LANGSYS ? GSUB-FEATURES ? GPOS-FEATURES ? SCRIPT ::= SYMBOL LANGSYS ::= '/' SYMBOL GSUB-FEATURES ::= '=' FEATURE-LIST ? GPOS-FEATURES ::= '+' FEATURE-LIST ? FEATURE-LIST ::= '~' ? FEATURE ( ',' '~' ? FEATURE ',' ) Here, FEATURE is a four-letter Open Type feature. LANG-SPEC is a symbol specifying the required language support. The symbol name has the following syntax. LANG-SPEC-NAME ::= ':lang=' LANG Here, LANG is a two or three-letter ISO-639 language code. FLT-NAME is a name of Font Layout Table (Font Layout Table). EXAMPLE
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Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>. Version 1.6.2 12 Jan 2011 mdbFontset(5)
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