D.A. van Delft <[log in to unmask]> wrote in article
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> David Randall <[log in to unmask]> wrote in article
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> > Despite having worked with 3000's for many years now I have either
> forgotten -
> > or never
> > knew - is there a way of listing files in a group in date order
> (modified,
> > accessed or
> > created?)
> >
>
> Ah, one of the many goodies of POSIX. Try the command 'ls' (or, if you
> insist, LS.HPBIN.SYS).
> From the posix shell prompt: 'ls -m', 'ls -u', 'ls -c' for modified,
> accessed, created.

Oops, a slight omission: you need to specify the 't' flag as well. That
will get you the order you want. So:
ls -mt
gives you ordered by modification date. Add the -r flag and it will reverse
the ordering. Add the -l flag and it will give you details. Try 'man ls'
for full details.

Danny.