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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] pathDescription
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