System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Example—Listing the Newest Files

The following example shows how to use the ls -tl command to locate the most recently created or changed files within the /var/adm directory. The sulog file was created or edited most recently.


$ ls -tl /var/adm
total 134
-rw-------   1 root     root         315 Sep 24 14:00 sulog
-r--r--r--   1 root     other     350700 Sep 22 11:04 lastlog
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin         4464 Sep 22 11:04 utmpx
-rw-r--r--   1 adm      adm        20088 Sep 22 11:04 wtmpx
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Sep 19 03:10 messages
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Sep 12 03:10 messages.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       11510 Sep 10 16:13 messages.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root           0 Sep 10 16:12 vold.log
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Sep 10 15:33 sm.bin
drwxrwxr-x   5 adm      adm          512 Sep 10 15:19 acct
drwxrwxr-x   2 adm      sys          512 Sep 10 15:19 sa
-rw-------   1 uucp     bin            0 Sep 10 15:17 aculog
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     bin            0 Sep 10 15:17 spellhist
drwxr-xr-x   2 adm      adm          512 Sep 10 15:17 log
drwxr-xr-x   2 adm      adm          512 Sep 10 15:17 passwd