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SHTOOL-MDATE.TMP

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NAME

shtool-mdate - GNU shtool pretty-print last modification time

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

This command pretty-prints the last modification time of a given file or directory path , while still allowing one to specify the format of the date to display.

OPTIONS

The following command line options are available.
-n , --newline

By default, output is written to stdout followed by a "newline" ( ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character is omitted.

-z , --zero

Pads numeric day and numeric month with a leading zero. Default is to have variable width.

-s , --shorten

Shortens the name of the month to a english three character abbreviation. Default is full english name. This option is silently ignored when combined with -d .

-d , --digits

Use digits for month. Default is to use a english name.

-f , --field-sep str

Field separator string between the day month year tripple. Default is a single space character.

-o , --order spec

Specifies order of the day month year elements within the tripple. Each element represented as a single character out of ‘‘"d"’’, ‘‘"m"’’ and ‘‘"y"’’. The default for spec is ‘‘"dmy"’’.

EXAMPLE

# shell script
shtool mdate -n /
shtool mdate -f '/' -z -d -o ymd foo.txt
shtool mdate -f '-' -s foo.txt

HISTORY

The GNU shtool mdate command was originally written by Ulrich Drepper in 1995 and revised by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for inclusion into GNU shtool .