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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sorting Directory Listing Post 302126344 by Sepia on Wednesday 11th of July 2007 07:40:07 AM
Old 07-11-2007
Sorting Directory Listing
If I do an ls -l on a directory I get this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 5248094 Jun 24 03:56 monitor.log.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 5248303 Jul 11 11:19 ct.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 5248907 Jun 29 06:01 ct_monitor.log.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 5249042 Jun 19 00:55 ct_monitor.log.9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 5376119 Jul 11 03:31 pLog.log

etc

If I want to sort if by date how would I go about it?

I Googled and found this:
sort -k1,1M -k2n
but when trying it it sorted it by size.

I don't really understand what sort -k1,1M -k2n refers to, when I changed it to sort -k2,2M -k3n. It did the same thing, I was thinking it might sort the next column.

Thanks.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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       systemd-volatile-root.service is a service that replaces the root directory with a volatile memory file system ("tmpfs"), mounting the
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