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diff --git a/scripts/mdate-sh b/scripts/mdate-sh
index b610b47a6..b3719cf76 100755
--- a/scripts/mdate-sh
+++ b/scripts/mdate-sh
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
-# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+scriptversion=2010-08-21.06; # UTC
+
+# Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# written by Ulrich Drepper <[email protected]>, June 1995
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -14,14 +17,55 @@
# 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
# configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
# the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
+# This file is maintained in Automake, please report
+# bugs to <[email protected]> or send patches to
+
+if test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" && (emulate sh) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ emulate sh
+ NULLCMD=:
+ # Pre-4.2 versions of Zsh do word splitting on ${1+"$@"}, which
+ # is contrary to our usage. Disable this feature.
+ alias -g '${1+"$@"}'='"$@"'
+ setopt NO_GLOB_SUBST
+fi
+
+case $1 in
+ '')
+ echo "$0: No file. Try '$0 --help' for more information." 1>&2
+ exit 1;
+ ;;
+ -h | --h*)
+ cat <<\EOF
+Usage: mdate-sh [--help] [--version] FILE
+
+Pretty-print the modification day of FILE, in the format:
+1 January 1970
+
+Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
+EOF
+ exit $?
+ ;;
+ -v | --v*)
+ echo "mdate-sh $scriptversion"
+ exit $?
+ ;;
+esac
+
+error ()
+{
+ echo "$0: $1" >&2
+ exit 1
+}
+
+
# Prevent date giving response in another language.
LANG=C
export LANG
@@ -30,7 +74,15 @@ export LC_ALL
LC_TIME=C
export LC_TIME
-save_arg1="$1"
+# GNU ls changes its time format in response to the TIME_STYLE
+# variable. Since we cannot assume 'unset' works, revert this
+# variable to its documented default.
+if test "${TIME_STYLE+set}" = set; then
+ TIME_STYLE=posix-long-iso
+ export TIME_STYLE
+fi
+
+save_arg1=$1
# Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory.
if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
@@ -38,27 +90,32 @@ if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
else
ls_command='ls -l -d'
fi
+# Avoid user/group names that might have spaces, when possible.
+if ls -n /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ ls_command="$ls_command -n"
+fi
-# A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
+# A 'ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
# drwxrwx--- 0 Aug 11 2001 foo
# This differs from Unix, which adds ownership information.
# drwxrwx--- 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 2001 foo
#
# To find the date, we split the line on spaces and iterate on words
# until we find a month. This cannot work with files whose owner is a
-# user named `Jan', or `Feb', etc. However, it's unlikely that `/'
+# user named "Jan", or "Feb", etc. However, it's unlikely that '/'
# will be owned by a user whose name is a month. So we first look at
# the extended ls output of the root directory to decide how many
# words should be skipped to get the date.
# On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below.
-set - x`$ls_command /`
+set x`$ls_command /`
# Find which argument is the month.
month=
command=
until test $month
do
+ test $# -gt 0 || error "failed parsing '$ls_command /' output"
shift
# Add another shift to the command.
command="$command shift;"
@@ -78,14 +135,35 @@ do
esac
done
+test -n "$month" || error "failed parsing '$ls_command /' output"
+
# Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
-set - x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
+set dummy x`eval "$ls_command \"\\\$save_arg1\""`
# Remove all preceding arguments
eval $command
-# Get the month. Next argument is day, followed by the year or time.
-case $1 in
+# Because of the dummy argument above, month is in $2.
+#
+# On a POSIX system, we should have
+#
+# $# = 5
+# $1 = file size
+# $2 = month
+# $3 = day
+# $4 = year or time
+# $5 = filename
+#
+# On Darwin 7.7.0 and 7.6.0, we have
+#
+# $# = 4
+# $1 = day
+# $2 = month
+# $3 = year or time
+# $4 = filename
+
+# Get the month.
+case $2 in
Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
@@ -100,7 +178,10 @@ case $1 in
Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
esac
-day=$2
+case $3 in
+ ???*) day=$1;;
+ *) day=$3; shift;;
+esac
# Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
# the time of day or the year.
@@ -131,3 +212,13 @@ esac
# The result.
echo $day $month $year
+
+# Local Variables:
+# mode: shell-script
+# sh-indentation: 2
+# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+# time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
+# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
+# time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
+# time-stamp-end: "; # UTC"
+# End: