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djgenesis

08-27-2008 10:20 AM

Display files by date (descending)

Hi all,

I have been trying to display the contents of a directory with "ls" but I can't seem to be able to sort the files by descending date order.

Code:

ls -utla

seems to be doing what I want it to do but I need the reverse of that....

djgenesis

08-27-2008 10:22 AM

Never mind... I found it:

Code:

ls -utlr

seems to do the trick

The -r switch reverses the order..

In MAN page:

Quote:

-r Reverses the order of sort to get reverse alphabetic
or oldest first as appropriate.

Thank you :)

colucix

08-27-2008 10:23 AM

Code:

-r, --reverse

      reverse order while sorting

Edit: too late! ;)

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