use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; use Time::Piece; use Data::Dumper; my $fmt = '%a %b %d %T %Y'; say for map { s/ (?<=TIMESTAMP=) (\d+) / localtime($1)->strftime($fmt) /arex } sort { ($a =~ /(?<=TIMESTAMP=) (\d+)/ax)[0] <=> ($b =~ /(?<=TIMESTAMP=) (\d+)/ax)[0] } map { chomp; s/ (?<=TIMESTAMP=) (\w+\s+\w+\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+\d+) / Time::Piece->strptime($1, $fmt)->epoch /arex } ; __END__ ...bla TIMESTAMP=Wed Oct 5 04:08:28 2018 bla... ...bla TIMESTAMP=Fri Nov 2 14:11:28 2018 bla... ...bla TIMESTAMP=Tue Oct 16 17:10:00 2018 bla... ...bla TIMESTAMP=Fri Nov 2 14:11:03 2018 bla... #### $ perl 1225106.pl ...bla TIMESTAMP=Fri Oct 05 00:08:28 2018 bla... ...bla TIMESTAMP=Tue Oct 16 13:10:00 2018 bla... ...bla TIMESTAMP=Fri Nov 02 10:11:03 2018 bla... ...bla TIMESTAMP=Fri Nov 02 10:11:28 2018 bla...