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Hi,

I am trying to ftp files from one server to another server.
On one server, I used ls -ltr command, gave me the following result:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ediprod zedi 28844 Oct 31 07:58 MFi1000181967
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ediprod zedi 24927 Oct 31 07:58 MFi1000303320
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ediprod zedi 30374 Oct 31 07:58 MFi1000311563
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ediprod zedi 56855 Oct 31 07:58 MFi1000320206
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ediprod zedi 24051 Oct 31 07:58 MFi1000330557

and, I started the ftp session
cisesedi03:/u02/app/gentran/ediprod/zz093/inv_dsa_data>ftp <somehost>
Connected to <somehost>.
220 <somehost> FTP server (SunOS 5.8) ready.
Name (<somehost>:ediprod): ediprod
331 Password required for ediprod.
Password:
230 User ediprod logged in.
ftp> cd /u02/app/gentran/ediprod/zz093
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> prompt
Interactive mode off.
ftp> mput *
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for MFi1000181967 (160.95.81.142,46628).
226 Transfer complete.
local: MFi1000181967 remote: MFi1000181967
30431 bytes sent in 0.002 seconds (14993.83 Kbytes/s)
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for MFi1000303320 (160.95.81.142,46629).
226 Transfer complete.
local: MFi1000303320 remote: MFi1000303320
26362 bytes sent in 0.0016 seconds (15640.43 Kbytes/s)
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for MFi1000311563 (160.95.81.142,46630).
226 Transfer complete.
local: MFi1000311563 remote: MFi1000311563
32137 bytes sent in 0.0019 seconds (16371.30 Kbytes/s)
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for MFi1000320206 (160.95.81.142,46631).
226 Transfer complete.
local: MFi1000320206 remote: MFi1000320206
60448 bytes sent in 0.0034 seconds (17150.28 Kbytes/s)
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for MFi1000330557 (160.95.81.142,46632).
226 Transfer complete.
local: MFi1000330557 remote: MFi1000330557
25428 bytes sent in 0.0015 seconds (16219.48 Kbytes/s)
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.


And, on the second server, I used ls -ltr, expecting the same result as on the second server. But, the list was jumbled up
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ediprod zedi 24927 Oct 31 08:00 MFi1000303320
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ediprod zedi 28844 Oct 31 08:00 MFi1000181967
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ediprod zedi 24051 Oct 31 08:00 MFi1000330557
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ediprod zedi 56855 Oct 31 08:00 MFi1000320206
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ediprod zedi 30374 Oct 31 08:00 MFi1000311563

Can any one help me why is the difference.

The Solaris definition of the -t flag is: This is not in accordance with Posix which mandates: This is not great, but there are worse Posix violations. My guess is that Sun does not get many complaints on this one. Few users would take a collection of files created in the same second and then sort them with the timestamp being the primary sort key.