how to tell "ls" output date in digital

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at msu.edu
Thu Sep 9 14:32:04 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 01:11:39PM +0000, Pala, Santosh wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> The ls command with -E switch will give the required output. 

Doesn't for me.
Says -E is an illegal option.

Running FreeBSd 8.1 stock ls.

On the other hand,   ls -lD "%F %T %Z"   does nicely.

////jerry

> 
> Regards,
> Pala.

> ________________________________________
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] on behalf of andrew clarke [mail at ozzmosis.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 9:24 PM
> To: Guojun Jin
> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: how to tell "ls" output date in digital
> 
> On Wed 2010-09-08 16:03:20 UTC-0700, Guojun Jin (gjin at ubicom.com) wrote:
> 
> > I remember that "ls" can output date in digital like following format
> > before
> >
> > -rw-r--r--  1 user  Domain Users    54323 2010-09-08 14:12 crash.log
> >
> > Instead of           Sep 08 2010 or   Sep 08 11:07
> >
> > But I cannot find any option or ENV to do this under FreeBSD (6.X-R).
> >
> > Does anyone have knowledge about this possibility?
> 
> In FreeBSD 7.3 I use /usr/local/bin/gls installed from the
> sysutils/coreutils port, and a tcsh alias for ls:
> 
> ls      gls --time-style=long-iso --color=auto
> 
> 21:23 ozzmosis at blizzard [~]ls -ld /
> drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 512 2010-09-05 03:11 /
> 
> Regards
> Andrew
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