Dear I say it ... Excel does a good job at this.
Export as csv, import into Excel, select the column and sort.

J


On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 09:12:14AM +1000, li...@sbt.net.au (li...@sbt.net.au) 
wrote:
> I have a wget /sed/awk shell script that fetches page and emails, the
> resulting format is like:
> 
> how could I date order sort on penultimate string to end up with date
> ordered ?
> 
> Job  1978924 (8)  Ttt  Pp 20-11-2012  Notes
> Job  1923886  Ccc          Pl 31-08-2012  Notes
> ...
> 
> 
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