Shell Programming and Scripting

The solution on Post #2 as verified in Post #6 are correct.
The commands in your post #7 are not correct.

However. Some of the data in Post #7 is really weird if these are supposed to be dates in the form "mm/dd/yy" . What on earth is "33/92/62" in the last record?

OK, that "special date" was just for testing.

What the problem here is, its only sorting the value as per the first "-k". If we try to use multiple times with different sort values, its not taking.
For example;

sort -k6.7,6.8 -k6.1,6.2 -k6.4,6.5 -k7.1,7.2 -k7.4,7.5 -k7.7,7.8 < file

Here, its sorting the file only as per the first value (i.e) -k6.7,6.8; all the other sort values are not counting

Can't see anything wrong except that the command you typed in post #7 sorts to YY/MM/DD SS:MM:HH order which does not match the requirement.

Code:

anchal_khare post #6
sort -k6.7,6.8 -k6.1,6.2 -k6.4,6.5 -k7.1,7.2 -k7.4,7.5 -k7.7,7.8

ajiwww post #7
sort -k 6.8,6.9 -k 6.5,6.6 -k 6.1,6.2 -k 7.8,7.9 -k 7.5,7.6 -k 7.1,7.2

aijwww post #9
sort -k6.7,6.8 -k6.1,6.2 -k6.4,6.5 -k7.1,7.2 -k7.4,7.5 -k7.7,7.8

If you still have a problem, please post the current version of the test data, the command and the output.

ok, thanks its working fine now