## ## mdate -- Pretty-print modification time of a file or dir ## Copyright (c) 1995-1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ## Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Ralf S. Engelschall ## ## This file is part of shtool and 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 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ## ## This file 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, or contact Ralf S. Engelschall . ## str_tool="mdate" str_usage="[-n|--newline] [-z|--zero] [-s|--shorten] [-d|--digits] [-f|--field-sep ] [-o|--order ] " arg_spec="1=" opt_spec="n.z.s.d.f:o:" opt_alias="n:newline,z:zero,s:shorten,d:digits,f:field-sep,o:order" opt_n=no opt_z=no opt_s=no opt_d=no opt_f=" " opt_o="dmy" . ./sh.common fod="$1" case "$opt_o" in [dmy][dmy][dmy] ) ;; * ) echo "$msgprefix:Error: invalid argument to option \`-o': $opt_o" 1>&2 shtool_exit 1 ;; esac if [ ! -r "$fod" ]; then echo "$msgprefix:Error: file or directory not found: $fod" 1>&2 shtool_exit 1 fi # GNU ls changes its time format in response to the TIME_STYLE # variable. Since we cannot assume "unset" works, revert this # variable to its documented default. if [ ".$TIME_STYLE" != . ]; then TIME_STYLE=posix-long-iso export TIME_STYLE fi # get the extended ls output of the file or directory. if /bin/ls -L /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1; then set - x`/bin/ls -L -l -d $fod` else set - x`/bin/ls -l -d $fod` fi # The month is at least the fourth argument # (3 shifts here, the next inside the loop). shift; shift; shift # Find the month. Next argument is day, followed by the year or time. month="" while [ ".$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" year="$3" # We finally have to deal with the problem that the "ls" output # gives either the time of the day or the year. case $year in *:*) this_year=`date '+%Y' 2>/dev/null` if [ ".$this_year" = . ]; then this_year=`date '+%y'` case $this_year in [5-9][0-9]) this_year="19$this_year" ;; [0-4][0-9]) this_year="20$this_year" ;; esac fi # for the following months of the last year the time notation # is usually also used for files modified in the last year. this_month=`date '+%m'` if (expr $nummonth \> $this_month) >/dev/null; then this_year=`expr $this_year - 1` fi year="$this_year" ;; esac # Optionally fill day and month with leeding zeros if [ ".$opt_z" = .yes ]; then case $day in [0-9][0-9] ) ;; [0-9] ) day="0$day" ;; esac case $nummonth in [0-9][0-9] ) ;; [0-9] ) nummonth="0$nummonth" ;; esac fi # Optionally use digits for month if [ ".$opt_d" = .yes ]; then month="$nummonth" fi # Optionally shorten the month name to three characters if [ ".$opt_s" = .yes ]; then month=`echo $month | cut -c1-3` fi # Output the resulting date string echo dummy | awk '{ for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) { now = substr(order, 1, 1); order = substr(order, 2); if (now == "d") out = day; else if (now == "m") out = month; else if (now == "y") out = year; if (i < 2) printf("%s%s", out, field); else printf("%s", out); } if (newline != "yes") printf("\n"); }' "day=$day" "month=$month" "year=$year" \ "field=$opt_f" "order=$opt_o" "newline=$opt_n" shtool_exit 0 ## ## manual page ## =pod =head1 NAME B - B pretty-print last modification time =head1 SYNOPSIS B [B<-n>|B<--newline>] [B<-z>|B<--zero>] [B<-s>|B<--shorten>] [B<-d>|B<--digits>] [B<-f>|B<--field-sep> I] [B<-o>|B<--order> I] I =head1 DESCRIPTION This command pretty-prints the last modification time of a given file or directory I, while still allowing one to specify the format of the date to display. =head1 OPTIONS The following command line options are available. =over 4 =item B<-n>, B<--newline> By default, output is written to F followed by a "newline" (ASCII character 0x0a). If option B<-n> is used, this newline character is omitted. =item B<-z>, B<--zero> Pads numeric day and numeric month with a leading zero. Default is to have variable width. =item B<-s>, B<--shorten> Shortens the name of the month to a english three character abbreviation. Default is full english name. This option is silently ignored when combined with B<-d>. =item B<-d>, B<--digits> Use digits for month. Default is to use a english name. =item B<-f>, B<--field-sep> I Field separator string between the day month year tripple. Default is a single space character. =item B<-o>, B<--order> I Specifies order of the day month year elements within the tripple. Each element represented as a single character out of ``C'', ``C'' and ``C''. The default for I is ``C''. =head1 EXAMPLE # shell script shtool mdate -n / shtool mdate -f '/' -z -d -o ymd foo.txt shtool mdate -f '-' -s foo.txt =head1 HISTORY The B B command was originally written by Ulrich Drepper in 1995 and revised by Ralf S. Engelschall Erse@engelschall.comE in 1998 for inclusion into B. =head1 SEE ALSO shtool(1), date(1), ls(1). =cut