doc/mdate-sh

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 # Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
   3
   4 scriptversion=2005-02-07.09
   5
   6 # Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software
   7 # Foundation, Inc.
   8 # written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995
   9 #
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  23
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  28
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  32
  33 case $1 in
  34   '')
  35      echo "$0: No file.  Try \`$0 --help' for more information." 1>&2
  36      exit 1;
  37      ;;
  38   -h | --h*)
  39     cat <<\EOF
  40 Usage: mdate-sh [--help] [--version] FILE
  41
  42 Pretty-print the modification time of FILE.
  43
  44 Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
  45 EOF
  46     exit $?
  47     ;;
  48   -v | --v*)
  49     echo "mdate-sh $scriptversion"
  50     exit $?
  51     ;;
  52 esac
  53
  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
  61
  62 save_arg1="$1"
  63
  64 # Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory.
  65 if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
  66   ls_command='ls -L -l -d'
  67 else
  68   ls_command='ls -l -d'
  69 fi
  70
  71 # A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
  72 #  drwxrwx---        0 Aug 11  2001 foo
  73 # This differs from Unix, which adds ownership information.
  74 #  drwxrwx---   2 root  root      4096 Aug 11  2001 foo
  75 #
  76 # To find the date, we split the line on spaces and iterate on words
  77 # until we find a month.  This cannot work with files whose owner is a
  78 # user named `Jan', or `Feb', etc.  However, it's unlikely that `/'
  79 # will be owned by a user whose name is a month.  So we first look at
  80 # the extended ls output of the root directory to decide how many
  81 # words should be skipped to get the date.
  82
  83 # On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below.
  84 set x`ls -l -d /`
  85
  86 # Find which argument is the month.
  87 month=
  88 command=
  89 until test $month
  90 do
  91   shift
  92   # Add another shift to the command.
  93   command="$command shift;"
  94   case $1 in
  95     Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
  96     Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
  97     Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
  98     Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
  99     May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
 100     Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
 101     Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
 102     Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
 103     Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
 104     Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
 105     Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
 106     Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
 107   esac
 108 done
 109
 110 # Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
 111 set dummy x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
 112
 113 # Remove all preceding arguments
 114 eval $command
 115
 116 # Because of the dummy argument above, month is in $2.
 117 #
 118 # On a POSIX system, we should have
 119 #
 120 # $# = 5
 121 # $1 = file size
 122 # $2 = month
 123 # $3 = day
 124 # $4 = year or time
 125 # $5 = filename
 126 #
 127 # On Darwin 7.7.0 and 7.6.0, we have
 128 #
 129 # $# = 4
 130 # $1 = day
 131 # $2 = month
 132 # $3 = year or time
 133 # $4 = filename
 134
 135 # Get the month.
 136 case $2 in
 137   Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
 138   Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
 139   Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
 140   Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
 141   May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
 142   Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
 143   Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
 144   Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
 145   Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
 146   Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
 147   Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
 148   Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
 149 esac
 150
 151 case $3 in
 152   ???*) day=$1;;
 153   *) day=$3; shift;;
 154 esac
 155
 156 # Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
 157 # the time of day or the year.
 158 case $3 in
 159   *:*) set `date`; eval year=\$$#
 160        case $2 in
 161          Jan) nummonthtod=1;;
 162          Feb) nummonthtod=2;;
 163          Mar) nummonthtod=3;;
 164          Apr) nummonthtod=4;;
 165          May) nummonthtod=5;;
 166          Jun) nummonthtod=6;;
 167          Jul) nummonthtod=7;;
 168          Aug) nummonthtod=8;;
 169          Sep) nummonthtod=9;;
 170          Oct) nummonthtod=10;;
 171          Nov) nummonthtod=11;;
 172          Dec) nummonthtod=12;;
 173        esac
 174        # For the first six month of the year the time notation can also
 175        # be used for files modified in the last year.
 176        if (expr $nummonth \> $nummonthtod) > /dev/null;
 177        then
 178          year=`expr $year - 1`
 179        fi;;
 180   *) year=$3;;
 181 esac
 182
 183 # The result.
 184 echo $day $month $year
 185
 186 # Local Variables:
 187 # mode: shell-script
 188 # sh-indentation: 2
 189 # eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
 190 # time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
 191 # time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
 192 # time-stamp-end: "$"
 193 # End: