mdate.sh

   1 #! /bin/sh
   2
   3 # Print the modification date of $1 `nicely'.
   4
   5 # Don't want foreign dates.
   6
   7 LANGUAGE=
   8 LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL
   9
  10
  11 (date;
  12 if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then ls -L -l $1; else ls -l $1; fi
  13 ) | awk '
  14 BEGIN {
  15         full["Jan"] = "January"; number["Jan"] = 1;
  16         full["Feb"] = "February"; number["Feb"] = 2;
  17         full["Mar"] = "March"; number["Mar"] = 3;
  18         full["Apr"] = "April"; number["Apr"] = 4;
  19         full["May"] = "May"; number["May"] = 5;
  20         full["Jun"] = "June"; number["Jun"] = 6;
  21         full["Jul"] = "July"; number["Jul"] = 7;
  22         full["Aug"] = "August"; number["Aug"] = 8;
  23         full["Sep"] = "September"; number["Sep"] = 9;
  24         full["Oct"] = "October"; number["Oct"] = 10;
  25         full["Nov"] = "November"; number["Nov"] = 11;
  26         full["Dec"] = "December"; number["Dec"] = 12;
  27 }
  28
  29 NR == 1 {
  30         month = $2;
  31         year = $NF;
  32 }
  33
  34 NR == 2 {
  35         if ($(NF-1) ~ /:/) {
  36                 if (number[$(NF-3)] > number[month])
  37                         year--;
  38         }
  39         else
  40                 year = $(NF-1);
  41         print $(NF-2), full[$(NF-3)], year
  42 }'