Re: Sorting by date

2011-03-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 04Mar2011 17:38, Bill Davidsen wrote: | erikmccaskey64 wrote: | > Original: | > Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi | > Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi | > Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi | > Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi | > Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.

Re: Sorting by date

2011-03-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 22:26 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Don't suppose these are in a directory and modification date has been > > preserved, > > are they? Because "ls -t" is your friend. > > And "ls -lht" will give you the long listing with

Re: Sorting by date

2011-03-04 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Don't suppose these are in a directory and modification date has been > preserved, > are they? Because "ls -t" is your friend. And "ls -lht" will give you the long listing with the last modified dates. -- Suvayu Open source is the future.

Re: Sorting by date

2011-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
erikmccaskey64 wrote: > Original: > Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi > Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi > Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi > Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi > Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi > Feb 27 2011 23:05 SOMETHING 2011.02.24.avi > > Out

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Larry Vaden wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM, erikmccaskey64 > wrote: >> How could I get the output where the newest file is at the top? > > One solution would be to awk it until the date is in the format > Europeans prefer, namely MM DD. That said,

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > How could I get the output where the newest file is at the top? One solution would be to awk it until the date is in the format Europeans prefer, namely MM DD. regards/va...@texoma.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread erikmccaskey64
Original: Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi Feb 27 2011 23:05 SOMETHING 2011.02.24.avi Output: Feb 27 2011 23:05 SOMETHING 2011.