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sort at jobs chronologically

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Possibly a simple solution I misplaced. How can I get the output of atq sorted chronologically, so I can easily see who's due to run next? The man page for sort doesn't have anything built-in to recognize timestamps like the following: atq 1264 Sat Mar 24 15:03:00 2012 a master 1445 Sat Mar 24 20:28:00 2012 a master 1548 Sun Mar 25 15:09:00 2012 a master 1193 Sat Mar 24 11:03:00 2012 a master 1359 Sat Mar 24 17:13:00 2012 a master 1726 Mon Mar 26 21:24:00 2012 a master 1736 Mon Mar 26 22:04:00 2012 a master 1748 Mon Mar 26 22:46:00 2012 a master 1704 Mon Mar 26 20:19:00 2012 a master 1288 Sat Mar 24 15:38:00 2012 a master 1532 Sun Mar 25 11:53:00 2012 a master atq |sort wouldn't work either at the job id's jump around.
Asked by Marcos (2353 rep)
Mar 23, 2012, 11:05 AM
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