On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 5:35 AM olivares33561 via users <[email protected]> wrote: > [extract fields from a CSV file and then sort on a date field] > Unfortunately dates are in the form MM/DD/YEAR like 5/19/2026 and it > apparently does not work :(
I think this requires more than a simple command-line filter pipeline. You need to: 1) extract the fields of interest 2) extract the components from the date field 3) re-write the date field components in a sortable order - as Tim suggested, ISO is best (YYYY-MM-DD). 4) Sort as desired 5) Do the rest of your desired output processing (header, other sorting, etc.) In other words, you need to write a program. I'm sure you could do this with awk, but it will be an awk *program*, not a "1-liner". FWIW, I would write this in python where there are modules to handle processing the CSV file, converting the date, etc. I'm sure others would recommend using perl, etc. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
