2 # mdate-sh - get modification time of a file and pretty-print it
3 # Copyright (C) 1995 Software Foundation, Inc.
4 # Written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.org>, June 1995
6 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
11 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 # GNU General Public License for more details.
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17 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
18 # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
20 # Prevent date giving response in another language.
28 # Get the extended ls output of the file.
29 if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
34 # The month is at least the fourth argument.
35 # (3 shifts here, the next inside the loop)
40 # Find the month. Next argument is day, followed by the year or time.
46 Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
47 Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
48 Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
49 Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
50 May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
51 Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
52 Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
53 Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
54 Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
55 Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
56 Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
57 Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
63 # Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
64 # the time of day or the year.
66 *:*) set `date`; eval year=\$$#
81 # For the first six month of the year the time notation can also
82 # be used for files modified in the last year.
83 if (expr $nummonth \> $nummonthtod) > /dev/null;
91 echo $day $month $year