NAME

shtool mdate - GNU shtool pretty-print last modification time

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

This command pretty-prints the last modification time of a given file or directory path, while still allowing one to specify the format of the date to display.

OPTIONS

The following command line options are available.

-n, --newline: By default, output is written to stdout followed by a "newline" (ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character is omitted.
-z, --zero: Pads numeric day and numeric month with a leading zero. Default is to have variable width.
-s, --shorten: Shortens the name of the month to a english three character abbreviation. Default is full english name. This option is silently ignored when combined with -d.
-d, --digits: Use digits for month. Default is to use a english name.
-f, --field-sep str: Field separator string between the day month year tripple. Default is a single space character.
-o, --order spec: Specifies order of the day month year elements within the tripple. Each element represented as a single character out of ``"d"'', ``"m"'' and ``"y"''. The default for spec is ``"dmy"''.

EXAMPLE

 #   shell script
 shtool mdate -n /
 shtool mdate -f '/' -z -d -o ymd foo.txt
 shtool mdate -f '-' -s foo.txt

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