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Old 04-18-2005
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I'm looking to edit a file which contains various data including date.(ddmmyyyy)

I want to sort by date and then count the number of different dates found
Any ideas how to acheive this

Thanks in advance.
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Old 04-18-2005
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Originally Posted by Mudshark
I'm looking to edit a file which contains various data including date.(ddmmyyyy)

I want to sort by date and then count the number of different dates found
Any ideas how to acheive this

Thanks in advance.
I assume you have 'columns' of data one of which is 'date' in the format 'ddmmyyyy'.
Make a new first column in the format 'yyyymmdd' from your ofiginal record.
Sort by the first column - 'man sort' and then remove the first column: 'man cut'
Count 'uniq' records - 'man uniq'
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Old 04-18-2005
Thanks vgersh99 - that all I needed to know !!
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