I am working on a Red Hat server. The commands ls -l or ll giving me the date and time in format +"%b %-d %H:%M".
I want to list the files in a way where the year when each was file created would appear within the date.
How is that possible?
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You can use man ls and here you can find the --time-style parameter. Or you can use:
| Command | Sample Output |
|---|---|
ls --full-time |
2024-04-09 13:24:44.108466043 -0500 |
ls -l --time-style=long-iso |
2024-04-09 08:58 |
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llset asls -laor something else,ll --full-timealso work. Commented Feb 24, 2019 at 3:05 -
3ls -l --time-style=long-iso shows cleaner output since doesn't print seconds/miliseconds Commented Dec 29, 2019 at 21:18
ls -l will display month, day and year - since, according to BSD man page:
If the modification time of the file is more than 6 months in the past or future, then the year of the last modification is displayed in place of the hour and minute fields.
So, to make sure that year will always be shown, use:
ls -l --time-style=long-iso (GNU/Linux)
ls -lT will display complete time information in BSD (MacOS)
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Your GNU/Linux variant should work on any GNU system, not only the one with Linux:
lscomes from GNU coreutils there.– RuslanCommented Feb 7, 2020 at 6:54 -
I think so, but not tested with another operating systems using GNU utils, only Linux :) Commented Feb 9, 2020 at 21:35
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"If the modification time of the file is more than 6 months in the past or future, then the year of the last modification is displayed". This is what I was looking for!– asgsCommented Sep 20, 2023 at 16:05
In addition to Jan Marek's answer.... I've noticed you can get away with just:
ls --full or ls --fu
which will do the same thing as ls --full-time as he described. Thanks Stéphane Chazelas. Now I type ls --fu everywhere. :)
Since you asked for the year, ls -lac is an easy one to remember if, like me, you use ls -la all the time. The c gives you ctime which will display a year if it's not the current year or the hour and minute if it is.
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I like this. A lot less noise in the output and only one letter to remember in the future.– EricCommented May 8, 2017 at 17:18
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4This seems to change the behavior of
lsto date changed rather than the default date modified. Commented Apr 22, 2018 at 1:41 -
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ls -ldisplays date and time for dates that are in the past six months, and date and year for other dates. ctime can be in the past six months just as much as mtime (modification date) can, sols -laccan display times (instead of years) just as much asls -lacan. Besides, as Mateen Ulhaq points out,ls -lacdoes not display the same dates thatls -ladoes. This answer is wrong. Commented Apr 22, 2018 at 2:46 -
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-cis actually a modifier for-land-t. It changes the display style for the former, and sorting criteria for the latter. According to manual:−c Use time of last modification of the file status information instead of last modification of the file itself for sorting (−t) or writing (−l).– foxesqueCommented Nov 2, 2022 at 12:56
As an alternative to --full-time and its iso-format you can also use the --time-style parameter appending the values you need:
ls . -l --time-style=+%Y/%m/%d
or +%y-%m-%d, maybe listing with -al instead (hidden files too)... That depends on your requirements.
If you're using busybox (embedded distros, e.g. OpenWRT, LEDE), the switch you're looking for is -e for versions up to 1.26.2 and --full-time for 1.27.0 and above (see the commit that changed it).
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-ealso works with Solarislsand ast-open's, so it's actually closer to a standard than GNU's--full-time. A shame that busybox removed it in newer versions. Commented Jan 21, 2019 at 15:37 -
This will work on macOS Catalina and later:
ls -altT /path/to/some/dir
