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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Copy files in order of creation date Post 303004361 by jgt on Saturday 30th of September 2017 11:48:30 AM
Old 09-30-2017
Were the original files created substantially at the same time?
The output of 'ls -lt' is not a simple file list, I would have thought that it should be 'ls -t'.
 

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TDIARY-SETUP(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   TDIARY-SETUP(1)

NAME
tdiary-setup -- installer to set up tdiary files for a user SYNOPSIS
tdiary-setup [default | symlink | copy | update ] directory DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the tdiary-setup commands. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files. default Copy CGI files and set up a tdiary user. Choose default if your httpd runs under suEXEC mode, which is generally recommended to make security stronger. symlink Make symbolic links and set up a tdiary user. Choose symlink if your httpd does not run under suEXEC mode. copy Copy all the files and set up a tdiary user. update Update existing tDiary setting. Use this when you update the tdiary package. directory Directory where CGI files will be copied. If the directory does not exist it will be made. USAGE
tdiary-setup default /home/foo/public_html/diary AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Daigo Moriwaki beatles@sgtpepper.net for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GPL Version 2. TDIARY-SETUP(1)
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