# Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995
#
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case $1 in
'')
echo "$0: No file. Try \`$0 --help' for more information." 1>&2
exit 1;
;;
-h | --h*)
exit 0
;;
-v | --v*)
echo "mdate-sh $scriptversion"
exit 0
;;
esac
# Prevent date giving response in another language.
LANG=C
export LANG
LC_ALL=C
export LC_ALL
LC_TIME=C
export LC_TIME
save_arg1="$1"
# Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory.
ls_command='ls -L -l -d'
else
ls_command='ls -l -d'
fi
# A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
# drwxrwx--- 0 Aug 11 2001 foo
# This differs from Unix, which adds ownership information.
# drwxrwx--- 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 2001 foo
#
# To find the date, we split the line on spaces and iterate on words
# until we find a month. This cannot work with files whose owner is a
# user named `Jan', or `Feb', etc. However, it's unlikely that `/'
# will be owned by a user whose name is a month. So we first look at
# the extended ls output of the root directory to decide how many
# words should be skipped to get the date.
set x`ls -l -d /`
# Find which argument is the month.
command=
until test $month
do
shift
# Add another shift to the command.
command="$command shift;"
case $1 in
esac
done
# Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
# Remove all preceding arguments
eval $command
# Get the month. Next argument is day, followed by the year or time.
case $1 in
esac
day=$2
# Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
# the time of day or the year.
case $3 in
case $2 in
esac
# For the first six month of the year the time notation can also
# be used for files modified in the last year.
then
fi;;
*) year=$3;;
esac
# The result.
# Local Variables:
# mode: shell-script
# sh-indentation: 2
# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
# time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
# time-stamp-end: "$"
# End: