LLT(1)

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💖 llt — bestie's guide to peeking at your file's timestamps 💖

okay so like, this is LLT(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section (iykyk), and it's lowkey one of the most useful lil tools ever?? it's literally called llt and it lists create, access and modification times of files ✨ like it just tells you when your files were born, when they were last touched, and when somebody last looked at them. main character behaviour tbh 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the vibe, fr fr:

        llt [-r] [-i] [-a|-m|-c] [files] [dirs]
or
        llt -e time

so yeah, you either run it on some [files] and [dirs], or you hit it with -e time and it does its little time-travel thing 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

every single one, no gatekeeping 🫶

  • --help, -h — shows you this help. iconic. the moment you're lost, just ask for help bestie 😌
  • --reverse, -r — sorts everything in reverse order, so flip the whole list upside down 🔄
  • --insensitive, -i — sorts case insensitively. so like, Apple and apple are the same girlie here. ⚠️ but heads up: not with -a, -m or -c. those three do NOT play nice with -i, periodt.
  • --access, -a — sorts according to access time. aka when the file was last looked at 👀
  • --modification, -m — sorts according to modification time. aka when the file was last changed ✏️
  • --creation, -c — sorts according to creation time. aka when the file was born 🎀 the origin story, if you will.
  • --unixTime, -u — shows unix time as an unsigned integer. so instead of a cute date you get the raw digits 🔢
  • -V — prints version(s). just the version info, that's it 💁‍♀️
  • --epoch, -e — okay so the parameter here is the time since epoch, and llt prints the date in a readable format. this option can be repeated multiple times (obsessed) ✨ and important: llt will stop executing if no other options or params are chosen. so if -e is all you gave it, that's the whole show.
🦋 also super important bestie: sorting without [-a|-m|-c] is sorting according to file names. so if you don't pick a time to sort by, it just goes alphabetical-ish by name. no cap.

Copyright (c) 2000-2022 by Heinz-Josef Claes (see README). Published under the GNU General Public License v3 or any later version.

and that's the whole page 💜 thanks for coming to my ted talk. this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-23, and honestly? she ate. slay, go sort some files 🌈⭐🧚

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