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1#!/bin/sh
2# Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
3# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4# written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995
5#
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)
9# any later version.
10#
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.
15#
16# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
18# Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
19
20# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
21# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
22# configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
23# the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
24
25# Prevent date giving response in another language.
26LANG=C
27export LANG
28LC_ALL=C
29export LC_ALL
30LC_TIME=C
31export LC_TIME
32
33save_arg1="$1"
34
35# Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory.
36if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
37 ls_command='ls -L -l -d'
38else
39 ls_command='ls -l -d'
40fi
41
42# A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
43# drwxrwx--- 0 Aug 11 2001 foo
44# This differs from Unix, which adds ownership information.
45# drwxrwx--- 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 2001 foo
46#
47# To find the date, we split the line on spaces and iterate on words
48# until we find a month. This cannot work with files whose owner is a
49# user named `Jan', or `Feb', etc. However, it's unlikely that `/'
50# will be owned by a user whose name is a month. So we first look at
51# the extended ls output of the root directory to decide how many
52# words should be skipped to get the date.
53
54# On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below.
55set - x`$ls_command /`
56
57# Find which argument is the month.
58month=
59command=
60until test $month
61do
62 shift
63 # Add another shift to the command.
64 command="$command shift;"
65 case $1 in
66 Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
67 Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
68 Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
69 Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
70 May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
71 Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
72 Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
73 Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
74 Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
75 Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
76 Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
77 Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
78 esac
79done
80
81# Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
82set - x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
83
84# Remove all preceding arguments
85eval $command
86
87# Get the month. Next argument is day, followed by the year or time.
88case $1 in
89 Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
90 Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
91 Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
92 Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
93 May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
94 Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
95 Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
96 Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
97 Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
98 Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
99 Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
100 Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
101esac
102
103day=$2
104
105# Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
106# the time of day or the year.
107case $3 in
108 *:*) set `date`; eval year=\$$#
109 case $2 in
110 Jan) nummonthtod=1;;
111 Feb) nummonthtod=2;;
112 Mar) nummonthtod=3;;
113 Apr) nummonthtod=4;;
114 May) nummonthtod=5;;
115 Jun) nummonthtod=6;;
116 Jul) nummonthtod=7;;
117 Aug) nummonthtod=8;;
118 Sep) nummonthtod=9;;
119 Oct) nummonthtod=10;;
120 Nov) nummonthtod=11;;
121 Dec) nummonthtod=12;;
122 esac
123 # For the first six month of the year the time notation can also
124 # be used for files modified in the last year.
125 if (expr $nummonth \> $nummonthtod) > /dev/null;
126 then
127 year=`expr $year - 1`
128 fi;;
129 *) year=$3;;
130esac
131
132# The result.
133echo $day $month $year
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