Re: sort email by date

In article <47C1E0C7.3030504@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Ed Morton  <morton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2/24/2008 1:20 PM, droid wrote:
>> I'm looking for a script/program to sort large email files by date.
>> I'm asking here because of AWK's reputation for pattern matching, but
>> would welcome any script/program that can perform this task on either
>> Unix or DOS/Windows.
>
>UNIX "sort" may be what you want but that's OT for this NG. Followup up
at
>comp.unix.shell if you're interested and post some sample input and
>expected output.
>
>	Ed.
>

UNIX "sort" is unlikely to work in and of itself - that is, without a
fair amount of shell wrapper (usually in the form of some awk and stuff
before the sort and then some more awk and stuff after) - because the
files to be sorted are multi-line and you want to sort on one particular
header field.