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1#!/bin/sh
2# Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
3
4scriptversion=2009-04-28.21; # UTC
5
6# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 Free
7# Software Foundation, Inc.
8# written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995
9#
10# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
11# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
12# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
13# any later version.
14#
15# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
18# GNU General Public License for more details.
19#
20# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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@gnu.org> or send patches to
30# <automake-patches@gnu.org>.
31
32case $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
39Usage: mdate-sh [--help] [--version] FILE
40
41Pretty-print the modification time of FILE.
42
43Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
44EOF
45    exit $?
46    ;;
47  -v | --v*)
48    echo "mdate-sh $scriptversion"
49    exit $?
50    ;;
51esac
52
53# Prevent date giving response in another language.
54LANG=C
55export LANG
56LC_ALL=C
57export LC_ALL
58LC_TIME=C
59export LC_TIME
60
61# GNU ls changes its time format in response to the TIME_STYLE
62# variable.  Since we cannot assume `unset' works, revert this
63# variable to its documented default.
64if test "${TIME_STYLE+set}" = set; then
65  TIME_STYLE=posix-long-iso
66  export TIME_STYLE
67fi
68
69save_arg1=$1
70
71# Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory.
72if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
73  ls_command='ls -L -l -d'
74else
75  ls_command='ls -l -d'
76fi
77# Avoid user/group names that might have spaces, when possible.
78if ls -n /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
79  ls_command="$ls_command -n"
80fi
81
82# A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
83#  drwxrwx---        0 Aug 11  2001 foo
84# This differs from Unix, which adds ownership information.
85#  drwxrwx---   2 root  root      4096 Aug 11  2001 foo
86#
87# To find the date, we split the line on spaces and iterate on words
88# until we find a month.  This cannot work with files whose owner is a
89# user named `Jan', or `Feb', etc.  However, it's unlikely that `/'
90# will be owned by a user whose name is a month.  So we first look at
91# the extended ls output of the root directory to decide how many
92# words should be skipped to get the date.
93
94# On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below.
95set x`$ls_command /`
96
97# Find which argument is the month.
98month=
99command=
100until test $month
101do
102  shift
103  # Add another shift to the command.
104  command="$command shift;"
105  case $1 in
106    Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
107    Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
108    Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
109    Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
110    May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
111    Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
112    Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
113    Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
114    Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
115    Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
116    Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
117    Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
118  esac
119done
120
121# Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
122set dummy x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
123
124# Remove all preceding arguments
125eval $command
126
127# Because of the dummy argument above, month is in $2.
128#
129# On a POSIX system, we should have
130#
131# $# = 5
132# $1 = file size
133# $2 = month
134# $3 = day
135# $4 = year or time
136# $5 = filename
137#
138# On Darwin 7.7.0 and 7.6.0, we have
139#
140# $# = 4
141# $1 = day
142# $2 = month
143# $3 = year or time
144# $4 = filename
145
146# Get the month.
147case $2 in
148  Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
149  Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
150  Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
151  Apr) month=April; nummonth=4;;
152  May) month=May; nummonth=5;;
153  Jun) month=June; nummonth=6;;
154  Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;;
155  Aug) month=August; nummonth=8;;
156  Sep) month=September; nummonth=9;;
157  Oct) month=October; nummonth=10;;
158  Nov) month=November; nummonth=11;;
159  Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
160esac
161
162case $3 in
163  ???*) day=$1;;
164  *) day=$3; shift;;
165esac
166
167# Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
168# the time of day or the year.
169case $3 in
170  *:*) set `date`; eval year=\$$#
171       case $2 in
172	 Jan) nummonthtod=1;;
173	 Feb) nummonthtod=2;;
174	 Mar) nummonthtod=3;;
175	 Apr) nummonthtod=4;;
176	 May) nummonthtod=5;;
177	 Jun) nummonthtod=6;;
178	 Jul) nummonthtod=7;;
179	 Aug) nummonthtod=8;;
180	 Sep) nummonthtod=9;;
181	 Oct) nummonthtod=10;;
182	 Nov) nummonthtod=11;;
183	 Dec) nummonthtod=12;;
184       esac
185       # For the first six month of the year the time notation can also
186       # be used for files modified in the last year.
187       if (expr $nummonth \> $nummonthtod) > /dev/null;
188       then
189	 year=`expr $year - 1`
190       fi;;
191  *) year=$3;;
192esac
193
194# The result.
195echo $day $month $year
196
197# Local Variables:
198# mode: shell-script
199# sh-indentation: 2
200# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
201# time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
202# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
203# time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
204# time-stamp-end: "; # UTC"
205# End:
206