mdate-sh revision 1.1.1.1
1#!/bin/sh 2# Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it. 3 4scriptversion=2003-11-09.00 5 6# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 7# written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995 8# 9# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 10# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 11# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 12# any later version. 13# 14# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 15# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 16# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 17# GNU General Public License for more details. 18# 19# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 20# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 21# Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. 22 23# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you 24# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a 25# configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under 26# the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program. 27 28# This file is maintained in Automake, please report 29# bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org> or send patches to 30# <automake-patches@gnu.org>. 31 32case $1 in 33 '') 34 echo "$0: No file. Try \`$0 --help' for more information." 1>&2 35 exit 1; 36 ;; 37 -h | --h*) 38 cat <<\EOF 39Usage: mdate-sh [--help] [--version] FILE 40 41Pretty-print the modification time of FILE. 42 43Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>. 44EOF 45 exit 0 46 ;; 47 -v | --v*) 48 echo "mdate-sh $scriptversion" 49 exit 0 50 ;; 51esac 52 53# Prevent date giving response in another language. 54LANG=C 55export LANG 56LC_ALL=C 57export LC_ALL 58LC_TIME=C 59export LC_TIME 60 61# GNU ls changes its time format in response to the TIME_STYLE variable, but 62# we cannot unset it since the V7 shell did not have an "unset" command. 63# The documentation says that the default is "posix-long-iso". 64# 65test "${TIME_STYLE+set}" = set && TIME_STYLE=posix-long-iso 66 67save_arg1="$1" 68 69# Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory. 70if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then 71 ls_command='ls -L -l -d' 72else 73 ls_command='ls -l -d' 74fi 75 76# A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2. 77# drwxrwx--- 0 Aug 11 2001 foo 78# This differs from Unix, which adds ownership information. 79# drwxrwx--- 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 2001 foo 80# 81# To find the date, we split the line on spaces and iterate on words 82# until we find a month. This cannot work with files whose owner is a 83# user named `Jan', or `Feb', etc. However, it's unlikely that `/' 84# will be owned by a user whose name is a month. So we first look at 85# the extended ls output of the root directory to decide how many 86# words should be skipped to get the date. 87 88# On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below. 89set - x`$ls_command /` 90 91# Find which argument is the month. 92month= 93command= 94until test $month 95do 96 shift 97 # Add another shift to the command. 98 command="$command shift;" 99 case $1 in 100 Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;; 101 Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;; 102 Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;; 103 Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;; 104 May) month=May; nummonth=5;; 105 Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;; 106 Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;; 107 Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;; 108 Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;; 109 Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;; 110 Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;; 111 Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;; 112 esac 113done 114 115# Get the extended ls output of the file or directory. 116set - x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""` 117 118# Remove all preceding arguments 119eval $command 120 121# Get the month. Next argument is day, followed by the year or time. 122case $1 in 123 Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;; 124 Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;; 125 Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;; 126 Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;; 127 May) month=May; nummonth=5;; 128 Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;; 129 Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;; 130 Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;; 131 Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;; 132 Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;; 133 Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;; 134 Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;; 135esac 136 137day=$2 138 139# Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either 140# the time of day or the year. 141case $3 in 142 *:*) set `date`; eval year=\$$# 143 case $2 in 144 Jan) nummonthtod=1;; 145 Feb) nummonthtod=2;; 146 Mar) nummonthtod=3;; 147 Apr) nummonthtod=4;; 148 May) nummonthtod=5;; 149 Jun) nummonthtod=6;; 150 Jul) nummonthtod=7;; 151 Aug) nummonthtod=8;; 152 Sep) nummonthtod=9;; 153 Oct) nummonthtod=10;; 154 Nov) nummonthtod=11;; 155 Dec) nummonthtod=12;; 156 esac 157 # For the first six month of the year the time notation can also 158 # be used for files modified in the last year. 159 if (expr $nummonth \> $nummonthtod) > /dev/null; 160 then 161 year=`expr $year - 1` 162 fi;; 163 *) year=$3;; 164esac 165 166# The result. 167echo $day $month $year 168 169# Local Variables: 170# mode: shell-script 171# sh-indentation: 2 172# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp) 173# time-stamp-start: "scriptversion=" 174# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H" 175# time-stamp-end: "$" 176# End: 177