[ale] line timestamp command

[Jim Kinney]

Can you modify the process to just write to standard logging?


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com>wrote:

> Does anyone happen to know of a command line tool that will read lines
> from standard input and write them to std out, pre-pending a timestamp? I
> have a process that emits messages to std out periodically as it processes
> and I'd like to write that to a log file, but with a time at the start of
> the line. I could do it with a script but a nice little command would be
> better, if it exists.
>
> I'm looking for something that would perform the function of this script,
> maybe with an option for format:
>
> while read line;
> do
>   echo $(date +"%D %T") "$line";
> done
>
> Scott
>
>
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