NAME
shtool mdate - GNU shtool pretty-print last modification time
SYNOPSIS
shtool mdate
[-n|--newline]
[-z|--zero]
[-s|--shorten]
[-d|--digits]
[-f|--field-sep str]
[-o|--order spec]
path
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,
By default, output is written to stdout followed by a “newline”
(\s-1ASCII\s0 character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character
is omitted.
"-z,
Pads numeric day and numeric month with a leading zero. Default is to
have variable width.
"-s,
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,
Use digits for month. Default is to use a english name.
"-f,
Field separator string between the day month year tripple. Default is a
single space character.
"-o,
Specifies order of the day month year elements within the tripple. Each
element represented as a single character out of ``CWd'', ``CWm'' and
``CWy''. The default for spec is ``CWdmy''.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool mdate -n /
shtool mdate -f '/' -z -d -o ymd foo.txt
shtool mdate -f '-' -s foo.txt
HISTORY
The \s-1GNU\s0 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 \s-1GNU\s0 shtool.
SEE ALSO
shtool(1), date(1), ls(1).
