updated test.sh for nobug compatibility, has still problems with joined stderr and...
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1 #!/bin/sh
2 # Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
4 scriptversion=2005-02-07.09
6 # Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software
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8 # written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995
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33 case $1 in
34 '')
35 echo "$0: No file. Try \`$0 --help' for more information." 1>&2
36 exit 1;
38 -h | --h*)
39 cat <<\EOF
40 Usage: mdate-sh [--help] [--version] FILE
42 Pretty-print the modification time of FILE.
44 Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
45 EOF
46 exit $?
48 -v | --v*)
49 echo "mdate-sh $scriptversion"
50 exit $?
52 esac
54 # Prevent date giving response in another language.
55 LANG=C
56 export LANG
57 LC_ALL=C
58 export LC_ALL
59 LC_TIME=C
60 export LC_TIME
62 save_arg1="$1"
64 # Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory.
65 if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
66 ls_command='ls -L -l -d'
67 else
68 ls_command='ls -l -d'
71 # A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
72 # drwxrwx--- 0 Aug 11 2001 foo
73 # This differs from Unix, which adds ownership information.
74 # drwxrwx--- 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 2001 foo
76 # To find the date, we split the line on spaces and iterate on words
77 # until we find a month. This cannot work with files whose owner is a
78 # user named `Jan', or `Feb', etc. However, it's unlikely that `/'
79 # will be owned by a user whose name is a month. So we first look at
80 # the extended ls output of the root directory to decide how many
81 # words should be skipped to get the date.
83 # On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below.
84 set x`ls -l -d /`
86 # Find which argument is the month.
87 month=
88 command=
89 until test $month
91 shift
92 # Add another shift to the command.
93 command="$command shift;"
94 case $1 in
95 Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
96 Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
97 Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
98 Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
99 May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
100 Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
101 Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
102 Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
103 Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
104 Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
105 Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
106 Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
107 esac
108 done
110 # Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
111 set dummy x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
113 # Remove all preceding arguments
114 eval $command
116 # Because of the dummy argument above, month is in $2.
118 # On a POSIX system, we should have
120 # $# = 5
121 # $1 = file size
122 # $2 = month
123 # $3 = day
124 # $4 = year or time
125 # $5 = filename
127 # On Darwin 7.7.0 and 7.6.0, we have
129 # $# = 4
130 # $1 = day
131 # $2 = month
132 # $3 = year or time
133 # $4 = filename
135 # Get the month.
136 case $2 in
137 Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
138 Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
139 Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
140 Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
141 May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
142 Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
143 Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
144 Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
145 Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
146 Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
147 Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
148 Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
149 esac
151 case $3 in
152 ???*) day=$1;;
153 *) day=$3; shift;;
154 esac
156 # Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
157 # the time of day or the year.
158 case $3 in
159 *:*) set `date`; eval year=\$$#
160 case $2 in
161 Jan) nummonthtod=1;;
162 Feb) nummonthtod=2;;
163 Mar) nummonthtod=3;;
164 Apr) nummonthtod=4;;
165 May) nummonthtod=5;;
166 Jun) nummonthtod=6;;
167 Jul) nummonthtod=7;;
168 Aug) nummonthtod=8;;
169 Sep) nummonthtod=9;;
170 Oct) nummonthtod=10;;
171 Nov) nummonthtod=11;;
172 Dec) nummonthtod=12;;
173 esac
174 # For the first six month of the year the time notation can also
175 # be used for files modified in the last year.
176 if (expr $nummonth \> $nummonthtod) > /dev/null;
177 then
178 year=`expr $year - 1`
179 fi;;
180 *) year=$3;;
181 esac
183 # The result.
184 echo $day $month $year
186 # Local Variables:
187 # mode: shell-script
188 # sh-indentation: 2
189 # eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
190 # time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
191 # time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
192 # time-stamp-end: "$"
193 # End: