How to sort output of "s3cmd ls"

regex bash sorting ls
dba.in.ua picture dba.in.ua · Apr 20, 2010 · Viewed 9.6k times · Source

Amazon "s3cmd ls" takes like this output:

2010-02-20 21:01 1458414588   s3://file1.tgz.00<br>
2010-02-20 21:10 1458414527   s3://file1.tgz.01<br>
2010-02-20 22:01 1458414588   s3://file2.tgz.00<br>
2010-02-20 23:10 1458414527   s3://file2.tgz.01<br>
2010-02-20 23:20 1458414588   s3://file2.tgz.02<br>
<br>

How to select all files of archive, ending at 00 ... XX, with the latest date of fileset ?

Date and time is not sorted.

Bash, regexp ?

Thanx!

Answer

Erik Kristensen picture Erik Kristensen · Jun 11, 2014 
s3cmd ls s3://bucket/path/ | sort -k1,2

This will sort by date ascending.

Related questions

Find and kill a process in one line using bash and regex

I often need to kill a process during programming. The way I do it now is: [~]$ ps aux | grep 'python csp_build.py' user 5124 1.0 0.3 214588 13852 pts/4 Sl+ 11:19 0:00 python csp_build.py user 5373 0.0 0.0 8096 960 pts/6 S+ 11:20 0:00 grep python csp_build.py [~]$ kill 5124 How …

Read More
Check if a string matches a regex in Bash script

One of the arguments that my script receives is a date in the following format: yyyymmdd. I want to check if I get a valid date as an input. How can I do this? I am trying to use a …

Read More
How can I match a string with a regex in Bash?

I am trying to write a bash script that contains a function so when given a .tar, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz etc. file it uses tar with the relevant switches to decompress the file. I am using if elif then …

Read More