PSORT(LOCAL)                                         PSORT(LOCAL)



NAME
       psort - pivoting sort

SYNOPSIS
       psort [-x|+x] [files]

DESCRIPTION
       psort  is  a  quick  way  to sort lines which begin with a
       2-digit year (such as yymmdd).   It  works  by  prepending
       either 19 or 20 using a pivot point of 1970; then sorting;
       then removing the prepended two digits.  Initial arguments
       beginning  with  "-" or "+" are passed to sort.  More com-
       plicated arguments can be passed in the environment  vari-
       able SORTARGS.

       Y2K  has  come and gone but 2-digit years persist and this
       is an easy way to deal with them (until 2070 :).

SEE ALSO
       sort(1)

AUTHOR
       Corey Satten - corey @ cac.washington.edu

BUGS
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