Get the last column from the ls command

awk '{ printf $NF;$NF = "" ;printf " "$0"\n" }' | sort

http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/September1999/article103.html

Here is one more trick I have learned from my colleague

ls -ltr | while read a b c d e f g h file; do echo $file; done

The second technique looks much easy to me