2 # Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
4 scriptversion=2010-08-21.06; # UTC
6 # Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010
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8 # written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995
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30 # <automake-patches@gnu.org>.
32 if test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" && (emulate sh) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
35 # Pre-4.2 versions of Zsh do word splitting on ${1+"$@"}, which
36 # is contrary to our usage. Disable this feature.
37 alias -g '${1+"$@"}'='"$@"'
43 echo "$0: No file. Try \`$0 --help' for more information." 1>&2
48 Usage: mdate-sh [--help] [--version] FILE
50 Pretty-print the modification day of FILE, in the format:
53 Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
58 echo "mdate-sh $scriptversion"
70 # Prevent date giving response in another language.
78 # GNU ls changes its time format in response to the TIME_STYLE
79 # variable. Since we cannot assume `unset' works, revert this
80 # variable to its documented default.
81 if test "${TIME_STYLE+set}" = set; then
82 TIME_STYLE=posix-long-iso
88 # Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory.
89 if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
90 ls_command='ls -L -l -d'
94 # Avoid user/group names that might have spaces, when possible.
95 if ls -n /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
96 ls_command="$ls_command -n"
99 # A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
100 # drwxrwx--- 0 Aug 11 2001 foo
101 # This differs from Unix, which adds ownership information.
102 # drwxrwx--- 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 2001 foo
104 # To find the date, we split the line on spaces and iterate on words
105 # until we find a month. This cannot work with files whose owner is a
106 # user named `Jan', or `Feb', etc. However, it's unlikely that `/'
107 # will be owned by a user whose name is a month. So we first look at
108 # the extended ls output of the root directory to decide how many
109 # words should be skipped to get the date.
111 # On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below.
114 # Find which argument is the month.
119 test $# -gt 0 || error "failed parsing \`$ls_command /' output"
121 # Add another shift to the command.
122 command="$command shift;"
124 Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
125 Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
126 Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
127 Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
128 May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
129 Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
130 Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
131 Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
132 Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
133 Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
134 Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
135 Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
139 test -n "$month" || error "failed parsing \`$ls_command /' output"
141 # Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
142 set dummy x`eval "$ls_command \"\\\$save_arg1\""`
144 # Remove all preceding arguments
147 # Because of the dummy argument above, month is in $2.
149 # On a POSIX system, we should have
158 # On Darwin 7.7.0 and 7.6.0, we have
168 Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
169 Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
170 Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
171 Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
172 May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
173 Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
174 Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
175 Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
176 Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
177 Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
178 Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
179 Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
187 # Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
188 # the time of day or the year.
190 *:*) set `date`; eval year=\$$#
201 Oct) nummonthtod=10;;
202 Nov) nummonthtod=11;;
203 Dec) nummonthtod=12;;
205 # For the first six month of the year the time notation can also
206 # be used for files modified in the last year.
207 if (expr $nummonth \> $nummonthtod) > /dev/null;
209 year=`expr $year - 1`
215 echo $day $month $year
220 # eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
221 # time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
222 # time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
223 # time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
224 # time-stamp-end: "; # UTC"