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From:	"Cliff Hones" <cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk>
To:	"Stan Horwitz" <stan AT temple DOT edu>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Question about the ls command
Date:	Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:58:47 -0000
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Stan Horwitz wrote:
> 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.

The 'man' command is your friend.  If you run "man ls" you will
find many options for controlling the output of ls, including
--full-time, which is probably what you need.

-- Cliff



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