Hi
I have a question if i give ls -ltr i get in the following order
I dont get time stamp of old files where as the latest ones have time stamp
How can i get the timestamp in the old files of 2008 and the one file of Jan 2009

-rw-rw-r-- 1 console staff 204 Nov 19 2008 msg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 console staff 296 Nov 24 2008 adj
-rwx--x--x 1 console staff 11557920 Dec 9 2008 file
-rw-rw-r-- 1 console staff 202 Jan 28 2009 test.msg
-rw-r--r-- 1 console staff 11557920 Jan 29 2009 test1
-rwx--x--x 1 console staff 130952 Sep 23 4:32 ram
-rwx--x--x 1 console staff 1299800 Sep 23 4:32 sum
-rwx--x--x 1 console staff 639504 Sep 23 4:32 system


Thanks in advance

Depends on what version of Unix we are talking about?

Try stat(1):

stat filename

$ stat fstab
  File: `fstab'
  Size: 480           Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 805h/2053d    Inode: 3931634     Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2009-11-04 13:53:25.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2008-12-13 22:52:49.000000000 +0000
Change: 2008-12-13 22:52:49.000000000 +0000
$

ls on Linux has the --full-time option.

Thanks for your answers stat in my unix is not giving the desired result , it is working just like cat

On the other hand
ls --full-time is working well in linux giving the desired result