Consider a file like [1]. (Note that, in each line, the dates are in (month/day/year) format, _without_ zero-padding)
I want to sort that file by date. After looking at sort's documentation (and also searching a bit on the internet), I fail to see a way to achieve that sorting, by just using the "sort" command. It seems that one can specify just _one_ character as field separator. I was expecting to be able to specify more than one. Something like: $ sort -n -t' /' -k5 -k3 -k4 file1.txt I think it would give the flexibility I was looking for here. What do you think? -- Dani Moncayo [1] $ cat file1.txt SUSE 10.2 12/7/2006 Fedora 10 11/25/2008 SUSE 11.0 6/19/2008 Ubuntu 8.04 4/24/2008 Fedora 8 11/8/2007 SUSE 10.3 10/4/2007 Ubuntu 6.10 10/26/2006 Fedora 7 5/31/2007 Ubuntu 7.10 10/18/2007 Ubuntu 7.04 4/19/2007 SUSE 10.1 5/11/2006 Fedora 6 10/24/2006 Fedora 9 5/13/2008 Ubuntu 6.06 6/1/2006 Ubuntu 8.10 10/30/2008 Fedora 5 3/20/2006
