Formatting the time in "ls" output
Sometimes you need to format the date output of 'ls' command. ls -l --time-style="+ %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" *log From the ls man page: --time-style=STYLE with -l, show times using style STYLE: full-iso, long-iso, iso, locale, +FORMAT. FORMAT is interpreted like 'date'; if FORMAT is FORMAT1FORMAT2, FORMAT1 applies to non-recent files and FORMAT2 to recent files; if STYLE is prefixed with 'posix-', STYLE takes effect only outside the POSIX locale