ls doubt

[intp]

ls command is not listing the Year part. Only month date and time. how to display year also ?

rw-rw-r-- 1 XYZ mygrp 6648 Dec 14 16:27 dec05.txt

i heard if no year is displayed then its current year...but for above its DEC (last year) and still not showing year part ??

am i missing something ? is there any settings we need to change ?


THANKS

[Mustafa Gulercan]

hi;
ls -l;
If the time of last modification is greater
than six months ago, or any time in the future, the year is
substituted for the hour and minute of the modification
time.

regards;
mustafa

[Torsten.]

Even DEC is HP now.

But being serious now, this is not a pure ls output. How about the "date"? Perhaps you invoked "ls" with other options (there are really a lot).

[intp]

Thanks.

any option thru which we can see year details also , using ls command even if the file's last modified date is less than 6 months ?

[Michael Steele_2]

Here's a good perl script and more:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=193814

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

No, the rule is that if the age is older than 6-months, then the year is substituted in lieu of the time.

By definition, this would be 180-days ago or 15,552,000 seconds ago, or just before the current time on December 2, 2005.

Regards!

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If all you want to see is a file's modification ('mtime') timestamp you can do:

# perl -wle 'print scalar localtime ((stat($ARGV[0]))[8])' filename

Regards!

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

OOPS! Sorry, for a file's 'mfile' that should be:

# # perl -wle 'print scalar localtime ((stat($ARGV[0]))[9])' filename

...the previous post would return the file's 'atime'.

Regards!

...JRF...

[H.Merijn Brand (procura · Accepted solution]

Attached is a perl script that also supports options and recursion.

save as 'lsi' for default behaviour. (sym)link to 'lsm' to get it use the mtime, and to 'lsc' to use ctime, and to 'lsa' to use atime.

options: -a select - and sort by access times
default for lsa
-c select - and sort by change times
default for lsc
-m select - and sort by modification times
default for lsi
-n sort by name default by time
-i sort by inode
-s sort by size
-r reverse default sort order
-f don't sort, print on find
-R recursive search
-t tail, print last 16 entries
-? print help

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn