From: Jim Meyering Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 14:55:26 +0000 (+0000) Subject: patch from Andreas S. X-Git-Tag: SH-UTILS-1_16a~128 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=39361c9d6e3c0f80fe3d9a0eb2472d1c95df5f43;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git patch from Andreas S. --- diff --git a/doc/mdate-sh b/doc/mdate-sh index e40131b3f5..37171f21fb 100755 --- a/doc/mdate-sh +++ b/doc/mdate-sh @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh -# mdate-sh - get modification time of a file and pretty-print it. -# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -# Written by Ulrich Drepper , 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 , 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 @@ -25,14 +25,15 @@ export LC_ALL LC_TIME=C export LC_TIME -# Get the extended ls output of the file. +# 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 $1` + set - x`ls -L -l -d $1` else - set - `ls -l $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