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Date display from ls -l command
Name: Carl Hoog Date: July 14, 2003 at 08:02:04 Pacific OS: HP-UX CPU/Ram: Not relevent
Comment:
When doing a ls -l command, the date for recently modified files appears as, for example, Jul 9 17:03. For much older files, it appears as, for example, Feb 7 2002. Does anyone know what controls this and can it be manipulated in a given session so that all appear as MMM DD YYYY or some other selectable format the includes the year? I want to do a ls -lt and capture the date stamp of the oldest file into a shell variable. I need it to always be in the same format and to include the year.
"If the time of last modification is greater than six months ago, it is shown in the format 'month date year' for the POSIX locale. When the LC_TIME locale category is not set to the POSIX locale, a different format of the time field may be used. Files modified within six months show 'month date time'."
Unfortunately I don't see any options or settings for changing this behaviour. Looks like an interesting scripting project...
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Response Number 2
Name: nails Date: July 14, 2003 at 10:54:30 Pacific
Reply:
Hi:
William is right about the 6-months time thing. I've used this code snippet, but it probably has a problem from Jan thru June, but it's a start:
year=$(date +%Y)
ls -l | nawk -v year=${year} ' { printf("%s\n", index($(NF-1), ":") ? year : $(NF-1)); }
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