在外壳中排序git timestamp

Question

I have a list of Git timestamps in the format Mon Jan 1 01:01:01 2013 +0500 . I need sort them in the shell somehow and have no clue how to approach this. So far I've created two arrays - one for months and one for days.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

EDIT: This is not a git log that I'm going through, this is just a bunch of git timestamps that I have pulled out from different repos.

Answer 1

You can use date to convert to a format that's easier to sort, such as epoch . I'll assume you have a file called dates.in , with one date per line.

#!/bin/bash

while read d; do
    date -d "$d" +%s
done <dates.in | sort | \
while read d; do
    date -d "@$d"
done