Willie Wong schreef: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick > squawked: > >> (how do you get ls to also include the @#$%#$ *year*??) > > > Sorry, couldn't help with the rest of your problem, but I think it is > assumed that ls will display the year only for files older than a > year old. Quite clever, in my opinion.
OK, I see what you mean-- or maybe I don't: la ~/docs/ totaal 3714 drwxrwxr-x 15 motub somegroup 1136 okt 28 00:56 . drwxrwxr-x 16 motub somegroup 1720 nov 21 02:46 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 motub somegroup 1292758 okt 18 20:17 autosc102.exe drwxr-xr-x 6 motub somegroup 192 okt 30 15:25 books -r-xr-xr-x 1 motub somegroup 2778 jan 27 2003 Buddies.xml drwxrwxr-x 2 motub somegroup 1216 jan 6 22:42 cmds -rw-rw-r-- 1 motub somegroup 581 jan 31 2005 computeruniverse_rma.txt drwxrwxr-x 5 motub somegroup 3192 nov 21 16:55 config -rw-rw-r-- 1 motub somegroup 3904 nov 3 2004 depclean_data.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 motub somegroup 204 sep 27 17:40 general_cvs.txt drwxrwxr-x 3 motub somegroup 1360 sep 6 23:23 hardware_man drwxrwxr-x 10 motub somegroup 528 apr 26 2005 +hb_pers drwxrwxr-x 6 motub somegroup 3448 apr 26 2005 infodocs -rw-rw-r-- 1 motub somegroup 56 nov 3 2004 install_notes.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 motub somegroup 99957 okt 18 20:17 Manual.pdf drwxrwxr-x 2 motub somegroup 240 sep 4 17:45 misc drwxrwxr-x 3 motub somegroup 1320 dec 9 21:46 miscpost drwxrwxr-x 8 motub somegroup 5808 mei 29 2005 misctech -rw-r--r-- 1 motub somegroup 1661 jul 13 13:52 more_what works.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 motub somegroup 1410 jul 2 2005 more_what works.txt~ drwxrwxr-x 2 motub somegroup 3360 okt 19 01:38 my_scripts -rw-r--r-- 1 motub somegroup 262 okt 4 17:03 new_wine_install_notes.txt drwxrwxr-x 2 motub somegroup 2312 dec 24 15:42 output -rw-rw-r-- 1 motub somegroup 5351 nov 6 2004 readme-queen.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 motub somegroup 50744 nov 6 2004 README-scummvm.txt drwxr-xr-- 2 motub somegroup 120 okt 18 20:41 registry drwx------ 2 motub somegroup 112 jun 15 2005 .Trash-motub -rw-r--r-- 1 motub somegroup 75612 jun 16 2005 what_works.html I see that many files that are more than a year old then are followed by the year, but some are not, and some which are less than a year old are followed by a year. -rw-r--r-- 1 motub somegroup 1661 jul 13 13:52 more_what works.txt (this must have been created in 2005) but this file is less than a year old and is still fully dated: -rw-rw-r-- 1 motub somegroup 581 jan 31 2005 computeruniverse_rma.txt But even leaving aside the inconsistencies (only for the purposes of this discussion), this is not the behaviour I expect or in fact desire. I normally expect the year to be displayed whenever the current calendar year is different from that associated with the file-- thus, if the file was created in 2006, I would not expect the year to be shown, but if it was created in 2005, I would expect the year to be shown, whether or not the current date was one year or more from the month and day that the file was created. Rather than go off on a rant, I will ask mildly: is there any way to change the default behaviour to more reflect my expected behaviour? Not so much asking you to tell me how to do it as asking if those of you who have already read man ls whether there is a solution to be found when I have the time to read it myself. Thanks, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
