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Need help with report format
I am writing a search script for my Unix class. I need to be able to display only user specified fields from a matched search. This is my script: while echo "Please enter Play name to search: \c" ; do read string case $string in "") tput clear echo "No...- nnikolay
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Sorting date field
I need to sort a file on the date field. My dates are in the second field and ":" delimited, with the mm/dd/yy format. I have tried the following code but it sorts only on the month : cat data | sort -t \: +1 -n > temp So if I have original dates: 09/28/03 07/04/04 09/29/03...- nnikolay
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
