[SOLVED] Changing the timestamp format of the "ls -l" output

[daihard]

I have a weird problem with Kubuntu 8.04. The "ls -l" command outputs the timestamp in the "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm" format even though the locale is set to en_us.UTF-8.

$ ls -l kdeglobals
-rw------- 1 dtoyama dtoyama 9538 2008-05-20 17:22 kdeglobals

$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

What should I do to format the timestamp to "May 20 17:22"? I ran "man ls" but couldn't find much help there.

[EDIT] I have tried "ls -l --time-style=locale", which according to many documents should work, but it did not.
Thanks!
Dai

[Nate]

Re: Changing the timestamp format of the "ls -l" output

I tried "ls -l --time-style=iso" and it game me "03-20 22:02" as a timestamp. Seems closer to what you're after.

[daihard]

Re: Changing the timestamp format of the "ls -l" output

I tried "ls -l --time-style=iso" and it game me "03-20 22:02" as a timestamp. Seems closer to what you're after.

Thanks for the suggestion. It is close, and I might have to live with it. Just for your reference, this is what I want from "ls -l"... taken from my Fedora Core 6 box.

[daihard-x2:/home/dtoyama/priv/docs/work]$ ls -l
total 1196
-rw------- 1 dtoyama rds 46592 Oct 12 2005 changelog.doc
-rw-r--r-- 1 dtoyama rds 743925 Sep 14 2005 coding_guide.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 dtoyama rds 222720 Nov 15 2007 dynroleswitch.doc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dtoyama rds 87552 Dec 17 2004 Feature List.doc
-rw------- 1 dtoyama rds 29696 Dec 17 2004 investigation.doc
-rw-r--r-- 1 dtoyama rds 16991 Jul 10 2007 lava_tasklist.odt
-rw-r--r-- 1 dtoyama rds 9316 Jun 14 2007 nis_accounts.odt
-rw-r--r-- 1 dtoyama rds 13425 Jun 13 2007 nis_setup.odt
-rw-r--r-- 1 dtoyama rds 20470 May 20 19:39 nis.zip

[kubicle]

Re: Changing the timestamp format of the "ls -l" output

You can use explicit formatting, for example:

ls -l --time-style=+'%b %e %R %Y'

(and you can create an ls alias for it, if you want to always use the formatting)

You can take a look at the formatting options with 'man date'

[daihard]

Re: Changing the timestamp format of the "ls -l" output

You can use explicit formatting, for example:

ls -l --time-style=+'%b %e %R %Y'

(and you can create an ls alias for it, if you want to always use the formatting)

You can take a look at the formatting options with 'man date'

Thanks! I've been able to modify your code to display the timestamp exactly like "ls -l" does on Red Hat. Here's my version.

ls -l --time-style=+"%b %e %Y$newline%b %e %R"

$newline is defined in my .bashrc file. This way, the first format will be used (i.e. showing the year) for non-recent files and the second (i.e showing the time) for recent files. I also got help from this site.

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutil...imestamps.html

Thanks again for your great help.

Dai

[Snowhog]

Re: [SOLVED] Changing the timestamp format of the "ls -l" output

Ah, another little tool to add (and I've just done so) to my alias definitions. For me, that would be:

alias l='ls -l --time-style=+"%b %e %Y"'

Thank you daihard and kubicle.