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# 1  
Old 06-26-2008
Displaying Date
Hi,

Am new to unix..i want some help..
when am using ls command like ls-ltr it displaying output like this:
Code:
rw-r--r--   1 infauser dba           36 Jun 16 12:36 s1_midify
-rw-r--r--   1 infauser dba           66 Jun 16 12:42 sample_one
-rw-r--r--   1 infauser dba           77 Jun 16 13:05 removelist

but if i want year also like
Code:
 rw-r--r--   1 infauser dba  36 Jun 16 2008 12:36 s1_midify

what command i have to give........can you please help............
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 06-27-2008 at 01:29 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 06-26-2008
if no year is given, it's the current year. older files (from LAST year) have a year in the "ls" output. read the manpage for "ls" (man ls) to see if there are other options to always display the year.
# 3  
Old 06-26-2008
Code:
ls -l --time-style +"%b %d %Y"
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 15 2008 pluginconf.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  386 Jan 10 2007 yum-updatesd.conf

# 4  
Old 06-27-2008
Thanks for your reply...
but when i tried y using ur command am not able get the output some error is coming...

ls -l --time-style +"%b %d %Y"
ls: illegal option -- -
ls: illegal option -- e
ls: illegal option -- -
ls: illegal option -- y
ls: illegal option -- e
usage: ls -1RaAdCxmnlogrtucpFbqisfL [files]...

can you please help me...
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