VMS equivalent of ls -lrt

From: Hallas John <John.Hallas_at_btcellnet.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 03:02:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003C7181.20011116020023@fatcity.com>

A user has asked me about identifying most recently created trace files on a VMS system. I have shown him where they are and how to do a DIR/SIN=TODAY command to get todays files.

However he was complaining that there was no equivalent on VMS to ls -lrt to list all files oldest first.

I have looked at PIPE DIR *.TRC |SORT commands but you need a key and it is not to obvious how to do it easily.

Does anybody know an easy way of doing it.

I have never needed to do it because I have always find the date parameter to DIR to be sufficient but it would be nice to help a user out for a change !!!

John

Oracle DBA
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Received on Fri Nov 16 2001 - 05:02:40 CST