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Ok Methyl, thank you for your help; that last post was most helpful as you actually pointed out to me that I was looking at it all wrong; stupid of me, but I was somehow expecting it to sort by date,...

sort -t',' -k3.7n,3.10n -k3.4n,3.5n -k3.1n,3.2n testData.csv

Yea I understand, and that's why yours specifies the exact locations:
Yet, it still fails... :'( ... It's really getting on my...

I originally did this:

sort -n -k 2.9 -k 2.5 -k 2 testData.csv


Which is similar to methyl's solution which works off the year first, but the problem I get is it will only sort one part, not...

Again; to clarify, I am not looking for an answer, but rather why my solution isn't working.

Methyl, appreciate the help, however I did have that sort the first time round, starting the years first but I still have the same problem; Could it be my translation messing about with the ',' and...

mike,0208,19/08/1991
nickle,0182,02/07/1960
...


Like that?

Thank you for hasty reply.

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