[ale] line timestamp command

[Derek Carter (aka goozbach)]

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On 2013-11-12, 1334, Scott Plante 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

I wrote a bash library to do logging in my scripts which might be
worth a look:

https://github.com/goozbach/log4bats

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Derek

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