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      1 #!/bin/sh
      2 # Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
      3 
      4 scriptversion=2004-12-08.12
      5 
      6 # Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
      7 # written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper (at] 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 #
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     20 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
     21 # Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, 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 (at] gnu.org> or send patches to
     30 # <automake-patches (at] gnu.org>.
     31 
     32 case $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
     39 Usage: mdate-sh [--help] [--version] FILE
     40 
     41 Pretty-print the modification time of FILE.
     42 
     43 Report bugs to <bug-automake (at] gnu.org>.
     44 EOF
     45     exit 0
     46     ;;
     47   -v | --v*)
     48     echo "mdate-sh $scriptversion"
     49     exit 0
     50     ;;
     51 esac
     52 
     53 # Prevent date giving response in another language.
     54 LANG=C
     55 export LANG
     56 LC_ALL=C
     57 export LC_ALL
     58 LC_TIME=C
     59 export LC_TIME
     60 
     61 save_arg1="$1"
     62 
     63 # Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory.
     64 if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
     65   ls_command='ls -L -l -d'
     66 else
     67   ls_command='ls -l -d'
     68 fi
     69 
     70 # A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
     71 #  drwxrwx---        0 Aug 11  2001 foo
     72 # This differs from Unix, which adds ownership information.
     73 #  drwxrwx---   2 root  root      4096 Aug 11  2001 foo
     74 #
     75 # To find the date, we split the line on spaces and iterate on words
     76 # until we find a month.  This cannot work with files whose owner is a
     77 # user named `Jan', or `Feb', etc.  However, it's unlikely that `/'
     78 # will be owned by a user whose name is a month.  So we first look at
     79 # the extended ls output of the root directory to decide how many
     80 # words should be skipped to get the date.
     81 
     82 # On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below.
     83 set x`ls -l -d /`
     84 
     85 # Find which argument is the month.
     86 month=
     87 command=
     88 until test $month
     89 do
     90   shift
     91   # Add another shift to the command.
     92   command="$command shift;"
     93   case $1 in
     94     Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
     95     Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
     96     Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
     97     Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
     98     May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
     99     Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
    100     Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
    101     Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
    102     Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
    103     Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
    104     Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
    105     Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
    106   esac
    107 done
    108 
    109 # Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
    110 set x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
    111 
    112 # Remove all preceding arguments
    113 eval $command
    114 
    115 # Get the month.  Next argument is day, followed by the year or time.
    116 case $1 in
    117   Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
    118   Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
    119   Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
    120   Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
    121   May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
    122   Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
    123   Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
    124   Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
    125   Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
    126   Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
    127   Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
    128   Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
    129 esac
    130 
    131 day=$2
    132 
    133 # Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
    134 # the time of day or the year.
    135 case $3 in
    136   *:*) set `date`; eval year=\$$#
    137        case $2 in
    138 	 Jan) nummonthtod=1;;
    139 	 Feb) nummonthtod=2;;
    140 	 Mar) nummonthtod=3;;
    141 	 Apr) nummonthtod=4;;
    142 	 May) nummonthtod=5;;
    143 	 Jun) nummonthtod=6;;
    144 	 Jul) nummonthtod=7;;
    145 	 Aug) nummonthtod=8;;
    146 	 Sep) nummonthtod=9;;
    147 	 Oct) nummonthtod=10;;
    148 	 Nov) nummonthtod=11;;
    149 	 Dec) nummonthtod=12;;
    150        esac
    151        # For the first six month of the year the time notation can also
    152        # be used for files modified in the last year.
    153        if (expr $nummonth \> $nummonthtod) > /dev/null;
    154        then
    155 	 year=`expr $year - 1`
    156        fi;;
    157   *) year=$3;;
    158 esac
    159 
    160 # The result.
    161 echo $day $month $year
    162 
    163 # Local Variables:
    164 # mode: shell-script
    165 # sh-indentation: 2
    166 # eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
    167 # time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
    168 # time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
    169 # time-stamp-end: "$"
    170 # End:
    171