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Hello everyone. I'm looking for a slightly more advanced sort command. I have 2 extra things it needs to do. Firstly, it needs to be able to sort a file based on a date which looks a bit like this: Tue Jan 8 04:53:47 GMT 2008 [and some other info which should be ignored] Not particularly nice. I'm sure PHP's strtotime function would probably be able to read that, but I need something I can use in a shell script. Secondly, the file is in the format: date/time as above arbitrary text blank line In this particular case the arbitrary text is all on one line so all I need to do is somehow convince the sort command to move blocks of 3 lines around, but being able to tell it to move everything up to and including a blank line would also be nice. Any ideas? Thanks. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html