> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:06:26 +0100 > From: Andreas Buening <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The problem is that "ls -l" on OS/2 delivers the month in the > third column.
What exactly does the "ls -l" line look like? > Would it be possible to a) either remove two of the "shift" commands > or b) use "ls -n -l" (provided that "-n" is standardized)? Unfortunately -n wasn't in Unix Version 7 and is not required by POSIX (it's an XSI extension), so we can't rely on it. Perhaps the most reliable algorithm is to parse the output of "ls -ld /" and look for a month, and use that to figure out how many columns to shift. It's unlikely that / will be owned by a user whose name is a month. Can you please propose a patch (diff -u output) and send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Automake owns mdate-sh. Thanks.
