man shtool-mdate (Commandes) - GNU shtool pretty-print last modification time
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, --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 ``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 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.