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"ls -l" output has changed

Asked by Mario Ramos

If I run ls -l on ubuntu 10.04 I get:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152 2010-07-22 17:02 lsOutput

This is 8 Fields.

If I run the same command on any other distro, redhat, centos, debian...
Or even from Ubuntu's crontab the output will be:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 445 jul 22 17:50 lsOutput

This is 9 Fields.

I've searched on /etc/profile /etc/bash.bashrc ~/.bashrc ~/.profile,
I have checked and disabled aliases with "unalias -a", but still the output of the ls command is wrong and confusing my scripts.

Could anybody tell me how to get the normal ls output back?

Thank you.
Mario.

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Use this command instead:

ls -l --time-style="+%b %_d %H:%M"

Or create new alias for this special command.

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Mario Ramos (mario-hummy) said : 		#2

Thanks.

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Mario Ramos (mario-hummy) said : 		#3

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.

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Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus) said : 		#4

ls(1) adapts to your locale. See the locale(1) command.

    $ >foo
    $ LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 ls -l foo
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ralph ralph 0 2010-07-24 12:55 foo
    $ LC_TIME=C ls -l foo
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ralph ralph 0 Jul 24 12:55 foo

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Mario Ramos (mario-hummy) said : 		#5

This is exactly what I was looking for.

There had to be some env variable causing the problem.

Cheers.
Mario.

On 24 July 2010 13:56, Ralph Corderoy
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Your question #118608 on coreutils in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+question/118608
>
> Ralph Corderoy posted a new comment:
> ls(1) adapts to your locale. See the locale(1) command.
>
> $ >foo
> $ LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 ls -l foo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ralph ralph 0 2010-07-24 12:55 foo
> $ LC_TIME=C ls -l foo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ralph ralph 0 Jul 24 12:55 foo
>
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