Am 18.02.2017 19:07, schrieb James K. Lowden: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:28:03 +0000 > Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> 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
I dont know why this is needed in the first place, but maybe stat(1) can help here ? re, wh
