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Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date.
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date. |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:30:49 +0200 |
William Brendling <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>> Doesn't the standard ISO-8601 date format accomplish that, too?
>
> Quite likely. I will have to find out what the ISO-8601 format is.
date already supports it:
$ date --iso=s
2005-06-07T08:14:28+0200
ls does, too, via --time-style=STYLE.
du's default format needn't include the time zone.
>> It might be nice to have an option that makes it look
>> at atime rather than mtime.
>
> Yes, I thought of that, but did not need it myself. Would you suggest
> a "--last-accessed" switch as well as "--last-modified", or would it
> be better to have a modifier "--use-time=atime|ctime|mtime"?
Since ls already has related options, it might make sense to
do something similar. How about dropping the `use-' part of
the option name and making it --time=...? `use time' or
`time of last use' is a common description of `atime'.
>> It's good to update the --help output and even better to update
>> the primary documentation in the file doc/coreutils.texi.
>
> I have made an addition to the "--help" output to describe the
> "--last-modified" switch, but not the details of the date formats. I
> have not yet looked at trying to update the other documentation.
You don't have to write much. Just say du's date format string
is interpreted just like that of the `date' command.
>> Writing ChangeLog entries describing your changes is helpful.
>
> OK. It may take me a while to do all this.
No problem. Paperwork usually takes at least a couple weeks.
> Yes, please send me the forms. No promises.
Coming right up.
- Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., William Brendling, 2005/06/03
- Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., James Youngman, 2005/06/03
- Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., Jim Meyering, 2005/06/04
- Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., William Brendling, 2005/06/07
- Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date.,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., William Brendling, 2005/06/08
- Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., Paul Eggert, 2005/06/08
- Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., William Brendling, 2005/06/09
- Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., Paul Eggert, 2005/06/09
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- Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., William Brendling, 2005/06/23
- Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., Jim Meyering, 2005/06/23
- Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., Paul Eggert, 2005/06/23
Re: Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date., Frederik Eaton, 2005/06/24