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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/mdate-sh')
| -rwxr-xr-x | lib/mdate-sh | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/mdate-sh b/lib/mdate-sh index 1146853bc..37171f21f 100755 --- a/lib/mdate-sh +++ b/lib/mdate-sh @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh -# mdate-sh - get modification time of a file and pretty-print it -# Copyright (C) 1995, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -# Written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995 +# Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it. +# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +# written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995 # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software -# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. +# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, +# Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. # Prevent date giving response in another language. LANG=C @@ -26,13 +26,14 @@ LC_TIME=C export LC_TIME # Get the extended ls output of the file or directory. +# On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below. if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then - set - `ls -L -l -d $1` + set - x`ls -L -l -d $1` else - set - `ls -l -d $1` + set - x`ls -l -d $1` fi -# The month is at least the fourth argument. -# (3 shifts here, the next inside the loop) +# The month is at least the fourth argument +# (3 shifts here, the next inside the loop). shift shift shift |