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How only show time of files with ls?

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From: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: How only show time of files with ls?
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 17:22:51 -0500

ls -go gives me permission and file sizes. But I only want to show
time and file names. Would you please let me know what command to use?

-- 
Regards,
Peng

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6251 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6251: How only show time of files with ls?
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 01:08:16 +0100

On 22/05/10 23:22, Peng Yu wrote:
> ls -go gives me permission and file sizes. But I only want to show
> time and file names. Would you please let me know what command to use?

You could use cut to show the required columns:

  ls -go | tr -s '[:blank:]' ' ' | cut -d' ' -f4-

Note if we supported `cut -d '[:blank:]'` adjacent
spaces in file names would not be squeezed.

You could also use find:

  find . -maxdepth 1 -printf "%Tx %f\n"

There was also talk of adding format directives to ls,
but there were various issues raised with that:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/14977

cheers,
Pádraig.

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6251-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6251: How only show time of files with ls?
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 19:03:56 -0600

Peng Yu wrote:
> ls -go gives me permission and file sizes. But I only want to show
> time and file names. Would you please let me know what command to use?

Please don't ask the same question on many different mailing lists.
Note that I replied to your message in bug-bash with the following:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-05/msg00140.html

  Since this has nothing to do with bash it is off topic for the
  bug-bash list.  In the future think about sending general help
  questions to the help-gnu-utils <at> gnu.org mailing list instead.  Or if
  you are specific about 'ls' then the coreutils <at> gnu.org mailing list of
  which 'ls' is a component.

  You might consider using 'stat' for this.

    stat --printf "%y %n\n" *

  Or 'find'.

    find . -maxdepth 1 -printf "%TF %TT %p\n"

  Or some combination of the two.

Bob

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