On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 8:35 AM Dani Moncayo <dmonc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps a long option, like: > $ sort --field-separators=" /" -n -k5 -k3 -k4 file1.txt
On second thought, that would be a fragile approach. It would fail with a file like the below one. So, I withdraw my proposal. Sorry for the noise. -- Dani Moncayo $ cat file1.txt SUSE 10.2 12/7/2006 Fedora GNU/Linux 10 11/25/2008 SUSE 11.0 6/19/2008 Ubuntu 8.04 4/24/2008 Fedora GNU/Linux 8 11/8/2007 SUSE 10.3 10/4/2007 Ubuntu 6.10 10/26/2006