On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Larry Vaden <vaden(a)texoma.net> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM, erikmccaskey64
<erikmccaskey64(a)zoho.com> wrote:
> How could I get the output where the newest file is at the top?
One solution would be to awk it until the date is in the format
Europeans prefer, namely YYYY MM DD.
That said, are you really looking for the package with the latest
E-V-R; if so, you'll need to borrow Python code from yum or perhaps a
Python guru on this list.
Johnny at CentOS (IMHO) recently posed this question as a way of
filtering out wanna be helpers.
regards/vaden(a)texoma.net