Original multisort code

• Zachary Beane's multisort download URL
• Freshmeat multisort project download
• multisort.c version 1.1 on this site

The patch

The multisort v1.1.3 rollup patch fixes a number of issues related to multisort v1.1:

• Fixed a bug where 01/Feb/2001:03:26:15 was incorrectly sorted before 31/Jan/2001:23:25:08
• Fixed bugs related to very old dates and dates far in the future
• Fixed bugs related to processing empty input files
• Correctly distinguishes between file EOF and read errors
• Allows multisort to just process a single file
• Added slightly better sanity checks on timestamp string formats
• Fixed a bug where multisort could hang on an I/O error
• Correctly computes POSIX Seconds since the Epoch values with full leapyear rules
• Speedup as per Bertrand Demiddelaer's patch
• Added -m maxage which will output only lines ≤ maxage seconds old instead of all lines
• Updated the usage message
• Compile with LFS support to be able to process log files >2GB

multisort v1.1.3 source

Disclaimers

This patch is being distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The rollup patch distributed under GNU General Public License. Use this patch at your own risk.

While I wrote this patch to fix bugs, to add the -m maxage feature, to not require multiple file args, to fold in Bertrand Demiddelaer's performance patch, etc. ... I did not write multisort itself. Zachary Beane wrote multisort. To distinguish his multisort version 1.1 from my patched multisort, I call my patched multisort version 1.1.3.

My multisort rollup v1.1.3 patch is obviously unofficial. Comments welcome.