On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 01:07:38PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote: > 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.
Thanks. This is for a small build helper used to embed modification times in manual pages, though; I'm not sure it's worth trying too hard. It has precisely one purpose and does not require additional optional behaviours. My usual philosophy for such things is that small and quick-to-understand code is better than more performant code; furthermore, having to compile a helper first would require adding more complication to the build system. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
