2 # Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
4 scriptversion
=2009-04-28.21
; # UTC
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34 echo "$0: No file. Try \`$0 --help' for more information." 1>&2
39 Usage
: mdate-sh
[--help] [--version] FILE
41 Pretty-print the modification
time of FILE.
43 Report bugs to
<bug-automake@gnu.org
>.
48 echo "mdate-sh $scriptversion"
53 # Prevent date giving response in another language.
61 # GNU ls changes its time format in response to the TIME_STYLE
62 # variable. Since we cannot assume `unset' works, revert this
63 # variable to its documented default.
64 if test "${TIME_STYLE+set}" = set; then
65 TIME_STYLE
=posix-long-iso
71 # Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory.
72 if ls -L /dev
/null
1>/dev
/null
2>&1; then
73 ls_command
='ls -L -l -d'
77 # Avoid user/group names that might have spaces, when possible.
78 if ls -n /dev
/null
1>/dev
/null
2>&1; then
79 ls_command
="$ls_command -n"
82 # A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
83 # drwxrwx--- 0 Aug 11 2001 foo
84 # This differs from Unix, which adds ownership information.
85 # drwxrwx--- 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 2001 foo
87 # To find the date, we split the line on spaces and iterate on words
88 # until we find a month. This cannot work with files whose owner is a
89 # user named `Jan', or `Feb', etc. However, it's unlikely that `/'
90 # will be owned by a user whose name is a month. So we first look at
91 # the extended ls output of the root directory to decide how many
92 # words should be skipped to get the date.
94 # On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below.
97 # Find which argument is the month.
103 # Add another shift to the command.
104 command="$command shift;"
106 Jan
) month
=January
; nummonth
=1;;
107 Feb
) month
=February
; nummonth
=2;;
108 Mar
) month
=March
; nummonth
=3;;
109 Apr
) month
=April
; nummonth
=4;;
110 May
) month
=May
; nummonth
=5;;
111 Jun
) month
=June
; nummonth
=6;;
112 Jul
) month
=July
; nummonth
=7;;
113 Aug
) month
=August
; nummonth
=8;;
114 Sep
) month
=September
; nummonth
=9;;
115 Oct
) month
=October
; nummonth
=10;;
116 Nov
) month
=November
; nummonth
=11;;
117 Dec
) month
=December
; nummonth
=12;;
121 # Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
122 set dummy x
`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
124 # Remove all preceding arguments
127 # Because of the dummy argument above, month is in $2.
129 # On a POSIX system, we should have
138 # On Darwin 7.7.0 and 7.6.0, we have
148 Jan
) month
=January
; nummonth
=1;;
149 Feb
) month
=February
; nummonth
=2;;
150 Mar
) month
=March
; nummonth
=3;;
151 Apr
) month
=April
; nummonth
=4;;
152 May
) month
=May
; nummonth
=5;;
153 Jun
) month
=June
; nummonth
=6;;
154 Jul
) month
=July
; nummonth
=7;;
155 Aug
) month
=August
; nummonth
=8;;
156 Sep
) month
=September
; nummonth
=9;;
157 Oct
) month
=October
; nummonth
=10;;
158 Nov
) month
=November
; nummonth
=11;;
159 Dec
) month
=December
; nummonth
=12;;
167 # Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
168 # the time of day or the year.
170 *:*) set `date`; eval year
=\$
$#
181 Oct
) nummonthtod
=10;;
182 Nov
) nummonthtod
=11;;
183 Dec
) nummonthtod
=12;;
185 # For the first six month of the year the time notation can also
186 # be used for files modified in the last year.
187 if (expr $nummonth \
> $nummonthtod) > /dev
/null
;
189 year
=`expr $year - 1`
195 echo $day $month $year
200 # eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
201 # time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
202 # time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
203 # time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
204 # time-stamp-end: "; # UTC"