Rich Shepard wrote: > I have a text file with dates in the common US slash-delimited format of > m/d/Y; single digits are not prepended with zeros. The file is in reverse > order; that is, today's date is at the top and the earliest data is at the > bottom. For plotting, I need to reverse the line order. (There's a numeric > value associated with each date.) > > After reading the sort man page I tried several options, but they all > consider each portion of the date as a separate field. This means that all > Januarys (1/) are contiguous by day and year. > > Is there a sort option that will do this but was not obvious to me? Or, is > there another tool that will do the job?
If all you need to do is reverse the order of the lines, then the tac command is what you need. -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
