Date mask in ls -l output

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I just installed a OpenSuse 11.4 box. Now when I do a ‘ls -l’ I see the date format different than on all my other boxes even though I have identical regional settings.

Is there a way (env var) to control this behaviour ?

Thx: peter

2

Allright, seems like OpenSuse 11.4 holds much more configuration files in /etc/profile.d
However, setting something like
export LS_OPTIONS="$LS_OPTIONS --time-style=long-iso"

Does the trick.

3

Hello,
man is a great tool :slight_smile:

man ls

--time-style=STYLE
              with -l, show times using style STYLE: full-iso, long-iso, iso, locale, +FORMAT.  FORMAT is interpreted like  `date';  if
              FORMAT  is FORMAT1<newline>FORMAT2, FORMAT1 applies to non-recent files and FORMAT2 to recent files; if STYLE is prefixed
              with `posix-', STYLE takes effect only outside the POSIX locale

for example:

ls -l --time-style long-iso
4

On 05/18/2011 03:06 PM, isemionov wrote:
>
> Hello,
> man is a great tool :slight_smile:

i’m looking forward to the next version, i think it is soon released as
wo-man :wink:

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5

DenverD wrote:

> i’m looking forward to the next version, i think it is soon released as
> wo-man :wink:
>
It will be more verbose then?

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On 05/18/2011 04:45 PM, martin_helm wrote:
>
> It will be more verbose then

yes, and there will be a few new CLI switches too, like

-head_ache
-too_tired
-new_shoes

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I control my ls output with this:

ls='ls --time-style="+%b %d %Y %l:%M %p"'

which gives me this when I type ls -l

-rw-r--r--  1 jj users   1157 May 15 2011 10:06 PM xx

HTH.

check

alias | grep ls

on your other machines to compare.
and UNIX man pages : date () for options.