shtool-mdate (1) Linux Manual Page

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 “"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 [at] engelschall.com> in 1998 for inclusion into GNU shtool.

SEE ALSO

shtool(1), date(1), ls(1).

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