Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/30/12:03:03
[ Move along...Move along. Nothing Cygwin-specific here. Just an RTFM. ]
Stan,
Use the "--full-time" option. Although the resulting format is distinct
from either the "recent" or "old" date formats shown in the "-l" output
format, it is uniform with no sensitivity to how far distant is the
recorded file time.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA
At 08:47 2002-10-30, Stan Horwitz wrote:
>Hello;
>
>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.
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