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diff --git a/doc/mdate-sh b/doc/mdate-sh
index e631b22..4614441 100755
--- a/doc/mdate-sh
+++ b/doc/mdate-sh
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
-scriptversion=2009-04-28.21; # UTC
+scriptversion=2010-08-21.06; # UTC
-# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 Free
-# Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -29,16 +28,26 @@ scriptversion=2009-04-28.21; # UTC
# bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org> or send patches to
# <automake-patches@gnu.org>.
+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
+ 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 time of FILE.
+Pretty-print the modification day of FILE, in the format:
+1 January 1970
Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
EOF
@@ -50,6 +59,13 @@ EOF
;;
esac
+error ()
+{
+ echo "$0: $1" >&2
+ exit 1
+}
+
+
# Prevent date giving response in another language.
LANG=C
export LANG
@@ -59,7 +75,7 @@ LC_TIME=C
export LC_TIME
# GNU ls changes its time format in response to the TIME_STYLE
-# variable. Since we cannot assume `unset' works, revert this
+# variable. Since we cannot assume 'unset' works, revert this
# variable to its documented default.
if test "${TIME_STYLE+set}" = set; then
TIME_STYLE=posix-long-iso
@@ -79,14 +95,14 @@ 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.
@@ -99,6 +115,7 @@ month=
command=
until test $month
do
+ test $# -gt 0 || error "failed parsing '$ls_command /' output"
shift
# Add another shift to the command.
command="$command shift;"
@@ -118,8 +135,10 @@ do
esac
done
+test -n "$month" || error "failed parsing '$ls_command /' output"
+
# Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
-set dummy x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
+set dummy x`eval "$ls_command \"\\\$save_arg1\""`
# Remove all preceding arguments
eval $command