File Sorting As Per The Name

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hello

Please tell me the command to sort files in specific directory

i have several files in one directory the files names are
2006-01-25
2006-01-23
2006-01-08
2006-01-07

I WANT TO DISPLAY FILES DATEWISE . THE LATEST DATE SHOULD BE FIRST FILE AND OLDEST WILL BE LAST ONE
PLS HELP ME

2

for my requirement timestamp and modification date of file doesnt matter

i want to list files by date wise

3

The ls isn't giving you what you need? Have you searched the man page?

man ls

4

You Can Use Db Queries For Date By Arrangindg Into The Date Format Unix

5

If you think about it, since the filenames are "YYYY-MM-DD" then when you sort them they will be in date order. So try using ls -r or sort -r

6

hello

i am using this command only to take a list of file
ls -r -1

files sorted by name wise and on each row displaying one name of file .

I need help to display 2 name of files in each row

7

Try that :

ls -r -1 | sed -e 'N;s/\n/ /'

8

ls -r | paste - -

9

it works ls -r | paste - - thanks a lot .

10

use the comand
ls -lt
I hope it will work.

11

Hi use this

ls -vl print the following

-rw-r--r-- 1 yhacks yhacks 0 2008-03-14 14:26 2006-01-07
-rw-r--r-- 1 yhacks yhacks 0 2008-03-14 14:26 2006-01-08
-rw-r--r-- 1 yhacks yhacks 0 2008-03-14 14:26 2006-01-23
-rw-r--r-- 1 yhacks yhacks 0 2008-03-14 14:26 2006-01-25

if want in reverse order use r option ls -lvr prints in reverse order