Hi Ryan: I believe I have some link at the office. I will try and remember to forward them to you on Monday.
In the interim, take a look at the awk command. This will allow you to reformat the input lines (as well as many other things). For a start the command: awk '{print $10 " " $7 " " $8 " " $9}' <infile (where infile is you input file name) will reformat your line to: 2003 Feb 3 00:32:48 You can then pipe the output to sort to sort the lines. Perl would probably be better but I don't know it well enough to give you an example. Anyway, that should give you a push in the right direction. There is a newsgroup, comp.unix.shell, that might be a better place to post shell programming questions. HTH Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com From: RD Egeland Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 16:51 > > I'm just learning how to write shell scripts, and I'd like to > find example > scripts to look at. The BASH howto and Advanced BASH howto isn't > too great > in this respect. > > The immediate task I'm trying to do is extract a date into a standardized > format which I can then somehow sort. The text I need to extract > the date > from looks like: > > Bid End time (eBay) : Mon Feb 3 00:32:48 2003 (GMT) > > Any tips? > > Ryan > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list