[ale] line timestamp command

[Doug Hall]

Actually, use this in place of the first line of the script I sent you:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w



On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Doug Hall <doughalldev at gmail.com> wrote:

> #!/usr/bin/env ruby -i
> # Print all the lines from STDIN, prepended with the current time
> ARGF.each_line do |line|
>   puts Time.now.to_s + ":" + line
> end
>
> -------
>
>
> Assuming you have ruby installed, create a file with the above contents. I
> called it in_timestamped.rb. Change it to an an executable :
>
> chmod +x in_timestamped.rb
>
> Then, make sure it's installed into a directory in your $PATH.
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:
>
>> I do happen to know of one, but it's by Dan J. Bernstein.  That sometimes
>> means it's of uncommonly high quality and careful design but low user
>> convenience.
>>
>> Usually the resolution is to do everything the way DJB thinks things
>> should be done.  Then it's convenient and reliable.  But it requires the
>> user to adjust behavior and/or expectations.  In this case, tai64n does
>> what you ask for, but the timestamp is not probably anything you'd want to
>> read.  So tai64nlocal converts it.  Weird, but not carelessly designed.
>>
>> http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/tai64n.html
>> http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/tai64nlocal.html
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
>>
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