List file by date Commands Add comments Jan 232010 List file by date Answer: When you directory contains lot of file, it is better to list them and sort by date E.g. # ls -lrt Related posts: Simple date calculation using date command List 10 most often used commands List files in a tar file List the size of sub directories in the current directory List processes by memory usage Leave a Reply Cancel reply Name (required) E-mail (required) URI Your Comment You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>