How to sort by date in descending order

[Roberto Ragusa]

Richard Cahilig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Guys I need your help, I have a text file which contains these data
> below, and I want to sort it by date in descending order. I tried to use
> sort -rn command but it gives me different output. I know I missing
> something but I just can't figure it out.
> 
> files     03-Sep-2009
[...]
> files     07-Jul-2006
> 
> Your help is very much appreciated. Thanks.

while read a b; do s1=`date --date "$b" +%s`; echo $s1 $a $b;done <yourfile.txt | sort -nr

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