shtool-mdate1
Gnu shtool pretty-print last modification time
Usage
shtool mdate
[{-n | --newline}]
[{-z | --zero}]
[{-s | --shorten}]
[{-d | --digits}]
[{-f | --field-sep
str}]
[{-o | --order
spec}]
path
Overview
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
-nis 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"''.
Examples
# shell scriptshtool mdate -n /shtool mdate -f '/' -z -d -o ymd foo.txtshtool mdate -f '-' -s foo.txt
Releases
11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 5 times.