2009-11-21 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
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1 #!/bin/sh
2 # Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
4 scriptversion=2007-03-30.02
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33 case $1 in
34 '')
35 echo "$0: No file. Try \`$0 --help' for more information." 1>&2
36 exit 1;
38 -h | --h*)
39 cat <<\EOF
40 Usage: mdate-sh [--help] [--version] FILE
42 Pretty-print the modification time of FILE.
44 Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
45 EOF
46 exit $?
48 -v | --v*)
49 echo "mdate-sh $scriptversion"
50 exit $?
52 esac
54 # Prevent date giving response in another language.
55 LANG=C
56 export LANG
57 LC_ALL=C
58 export LC_ALL
59 LC_TIME=C
60 export LC_TIME
62 # GNU ls changes its time format in response to the TIME_STYLE
63 # variable. Since we cannot assume `unset' works, revert this
64 # variable to its documented default.
65 if test "${TIME_STYLE+set}" = set; then
66 TIME_STYLE=posix-long-iso
67 export TIME_STYLE
70 save_arg1=$1
72 # Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory.
73 if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
74 ls_command='ls -L -l -d'
75 else
76 ls_command='ls -l -d'
78 # Avoid user/group names that might have spaces, when possible.
79 if ls -n /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
80 ls_command="$ls_command -n"
83 # A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
84 # drwxrwx--- 0 Aug 11 2001 foo
85 # This differs from Unix, which adds ownership information.
86 # drwxrwx--- 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 2001 foo
88 # To find the date, we split the line on spaces and iterate on words
89 # until we find a month. This cannot work with files whose owner is a
90 # user named `Jan', or `Feb', etc. However, it's unlikely that `/'
91 # will be owned by a user whose name is a month. So we first look at
92 # the extended ls output of the root directory to decide how many
93 # words should be skipped to get the date.
95 # On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below.
96 set x`$ls_command /`
98 # Find which argument is the month.
99 month=
100 command=
101 until test $month
103 shift
104 # Add another shift to the command.
105 command="$command shift;"
106 case $1 in
107 Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
108 Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
109 Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
110 Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
111 May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
112 Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
113 Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
114 Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
115 Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
116 Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
117 Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
118 Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
119 esac
120 done
122 # Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
123 set dummy x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
125 # Remove all preceding arguments
126 eval $command
128 # Because of the dummy argument above, month is in $2.
130 # On a POSIX system, we should have
132 # $# = 5
133 # $1 = file size
134 # $2 = month
135 # $3 = day
136 # $4 = year or time
137 # $5 = filename
139 # On Darwin 7.7.0 and 7.6.0, we have
141 # $# = 4
142 # $1 = day
143 # $2 = month
144 # $3 = year or time
145 # $4 = filename
147 # Get the month.
148 case $2 in
149 Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
150 Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
151 Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
152 Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
153 May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
154 Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
155 Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
156 Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
157 Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
158 Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
159 Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
160 Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
161 esac
163 case $3 in
164 ???*) day=$1;;
165 *) day=$3; shift;;
166 esac
168 # Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
169 # the time of day or the year.
170 case $3 in
171 *:*) set `date`; eval year=\$$#
172 case $2 in
173 Jan) nummonthtod=1;;
174 Feb) nummonthtod=2;;
175 Mar) nummonthtod=3;;
176 Apr) nummonthtod=4;;
177 May) nummonthtod=5;;
178 Jun) nummonthtod=6;;
179 Jul) nummonthtod=7;;
180 Aug) nummonthtod=8;;
181 Sep) nummonthtod=9;;
182 Oct) nummonthtod=10;;
183 Nov) nummonthtod=11;;
184 Dec) nummonthtod=12;;
185 esac
186 # For the first six month of the year the time notation can also
187 # be used for files modified in the last year.
188 if (expr $nummonth \> $nummonthtod) > /dev/null;
189 then
190 year=`expr $year - 1`
191 fi;;
192 *) year=$3;;
193 esac
195 # The result.
196 echo $day $month $year
198 # Local Variables:
199 # mode: shell-script
200 # sh-indentation: 2
201 # eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
202 # time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
203 # time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
204 # time-stamp-end: "$"
205 # End: