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- #!/bin/sh
- # mdate-sh - get modification time of a file and pretty-print it
- # Copyright (C) 1995 Software Foundation, Inc.
- # Written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995
- #
- # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- # any later version.
- #
- # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- # GNU General Public License for more details.
- #
- # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- # Prevent date giving response in another language.
- LANG=C
- export LANG
- LC_ALL=C
- export LC_ALL
- LC_TIME=C
- export LC_TIME
-
- # Get the extended ls output of the file.
- if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
- set - `ls -L -l $1`
- else
- set - `ls -l $1`
- fi
- # The month is at least the fourth argument.
- # (3 shifts here, the next inside the loop)
- shift
- shift
- shift
-
- # Find the month. Next argument is day, followed by the year or time.
- month=
- until test $month
- do
- shift
- case $1 in
- Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
- Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
- Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
- Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
- May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
- Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
- Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
- Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
- Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
- Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
- Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
- Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
- esac
- done
-
- day=$2
-
- # Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
- # the time of day or the year.
- case $3 in
- *:*) set `date`; eval year=\$$#
- case $2 in
- Jan) nummonthtod=1;;
- Feb) nummonthtod=2;;
- Mar) nummonthtod=3;;
- Apr) nummonthtod=4;;
- May) nummonthtod=5;;
- Jun) nummonthtod=6;;
- Jul) nummonthtod=7;;
- Aug) nummonthtod=8;;
- Sep) nummonthtod=9;;
- Oct) nummonthtod=10;;
- Nov) nummonthtod=11;;
- Dec) nummonthtod=12;;
- esac
- # For the first six month of the year the time notation can also
- # be used for files modified in the last year.
- if (expr $nummonth \> $nummonthtod) > /dev/null;
- then
- year=`expr $year - 1`
- fi;;
- *) year=$3;;
- esac
-
- # The result.
- echo $day $month $year
-