使用ls命令显示文件按复制时间排序？

Question

I have a remote machine and I scp -ed a bunch files from the host. I want to use ls command to show these files, sorted by copied time. How can I do this?

I tried ls -lt but it doesn't seem right. It only shows the file created time, not my copying time.

Answer 1

ls -lt does not show file creation time...because most Unix filesystems do not actually record the file creation time. For those that do, it's not necessarily easy to get at it (with ext4 you can use the debugfs command ( doc ), but that's not really germane to your question).

The -t flag by default sorts by modification time. You can use the inode change time ( ctime ) by adding the -c flag, so -lct .

It's possible that sorting by the inode change time may get you what you want, since this gets updated when the file metadata (size, ownership, permissions) is changed, which will happen when you create a new file.