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Old 08-22-2005
How do I organize a series of files in date order?
I'd like to ls a group of files in date order but I'm not sure what the commands would be.

Can anyone help with this?
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Old 08-23-2005
The option to be supplied is '-t', but please check the man pages before asking questions pertaining to any command. The man page is usually quite detailed and you would have easily found the answer for you question had you just typed 'man ls'.
 
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