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ohh!! it's as simple as that!! i'm going to kick myself : )
thanks again!

Thanks! it does indeed work, but I was just wondering how it also sorts the other month and day fields? i take this to mean, sort with "/" as the delimiter and only sort based on field 3(year)?
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but this will sort all dates with a common month together? before sorting on year?...ie,

01/15/1999
01/16/2000
02/01/1999

I have a file where dates in the form mm/dd/yyyy is the first field. How do I sort the file by the date field?

Thanks,

Duckman

what is the noclobber variable? what does it do?

BTW, thx PXT, it worked!

Neo: indeed I have permissions to write over the file as I can delete, append etc...and now with >| i can overwrite :...

nono, i don't want to over write the original file...well i guess what's what I wrote, but I meant if I want to use

cat abc.dat > abc.txt

and abc.txt already exists

it gives me an error...

but if i use '>' in a script and the file already exists, it returns an error message saying that file already exists...

if i want to pipe output to a file, say,
cat abc.dat > abc.txt, how do i make it replace the existing file?

I have a file with three fields, where the first two fields are of fixed length, left justified, and right padded with spaces. The third field is truncated to the length of the data (max length 5),...

Thanks! It works great! I'm pretty new to unix so I have no idea how that script works. Can someone explain the script line by line to me please? thanks

Duckman

I need a script to do the following and have no idea how to do it...can someone help?

I need to start Sql*Plus, load a query, say "unmatched.sql", run the query, then load unmatched.sc and run it,...