Question about the ls command

Randall R Schulz rrschulz@cris.com
Wed Oct 30 09:34:00 GMT 2002


[ Move along...Move along. Nothing Cygwin-specific here. Just an RTFM. ]


Stan,

Use the "--full-time" option. Although the resulting format is distinct 
from either the "recent" or "old" date formats shown in the "-l" output 
format, it is uniform with no sensitivity to how far distant is the 
recorded file time.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA


At 08:47 2002-10-30, Stan Horwitz wrote:
>Hello;
>
>I am new to cygwin, as I have just installed it on a Windows 2000 system, 
>so I hope this question is not a faq.
>
>With the "ls -l"  command, the modification date of Windows files is 
>shown, however, the format of this date varies. On files from a previous 
>year, the year of last modificatation is included in the output, but on 
>files that were recently created, the year is not included. Is there a way 
>to get ls to display the modification date in a consistent format, 
>regardless of when the file was last modified? I don't really care what 
>the format is, as long as it is consistent so that I can write some 
>scripts to parse the output of ls easily.


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