Re: [Groff] [PATCH] mdate.sh: rewrite in Perl

[James K. Lowden]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:28:03 +0000
Colin Watson <address@hidden> wrote:

> This version is much shorter and easier to understand than the
> shell/awk version: we don't have to worry about convincing ls to
> produce output that we can parse, and we don't have to play games
> with the way that the same field may contain either the year or the
> time depending on how old the file is.

Attached please find fdate.c. It accepts filename argments and prints
the files' mtimes (and, optionally, names).  Like date(1), it accepts a
strftime format argument, defaulting to yyyy-mm-dd.

If you would like to use it instead, i can provide the necessary GNU
paperwork.  

$ fdate ~/projects/3/groff/*
2016-04-21
2013-11-12
2016-04-19

$ fdate -v +'%d %B %Y' ~/projects/3/groff/*
21 April 2016 /home/jklowden/projects/3/groff/groff
12 November 2013 /home/jklowden/projects/3/groff/mkgrft
19 April 2016 /home/jklowden/projects/3/groff/sidebar

--jkl

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