Linux ls to show only filename date and size

Question

How can i use ls in linux to get a listing of filenames date and size only. I don't need to see the other info such as owner, permission. Is this possible.

Answer 1

ls -l | awk '{print $5, $6, $7, $9}'

This will print the file size in bytes, month, date, and filename.

jin@encrypt /tmp/foo % ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 jin  wheel  68 Oct  4 12:43 bar
drwxr-xr-x  2 jin  wheel  68 Oct  4 12:43 baz
drwxr-xr-x  2 jin  wheel  68 Oct  4 12:43 quux

jin@encrypt /tmp/foo % ls -l | awk '{print $5, $6, $7, $9}'
68 Oct 4 bar
68 Oct 4 baz
68 Oct 4 quux

Answer 2

you can always do:

$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 user  staff  0 Oct  6 23:29 file1
-rw-r--r--  1 user  staff  0 Oct  6 23:29 file2
-rw-r--r--  1 user  staff  0 Oct  6 23:30 file3
-rw-r--r--  1 user  staff  0 Oct  6 23:30 file4
-rw-r--r--  1 user  staff  0 Oct  6 23:30 file5
-rw-r--r--  1 user  staff  0 Oct  6 23:30 file6
-rw-r--r--  1 user  staff  0 Oct  6 23:30 file7

cut it to:

$ ls -l | cut -f 8-13 -d ' '

0 Oct  6 23:29 file1
0 Oct  6 23:29 file2
0 Oct  6 23:30 file3
0 Oct  6 23:30 file4
0 Oct  6 23:30 file5
0 Oct  6 23:30 file6
0 Oct  6 23:30 file7

$ 

Answer 3

Technically, it's not possible with ls, but find can do the same job with its -printf switch:

find -maxdepth 1 -printf '%t %s %p\n'