[ale] line timestamp command

[Wolf Halton]

I have a piece that adds a formatted date to a file name in this tar command

tar czf "${directory1}""$h"_backups_`date '+%F_%H_%M'`.tar.gz
"${directory2}"*.tar.gz

h=`hostname`


Wolf Halton

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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Derek Carter (aka goozbach) <
goozbach at friocorte.com> wrote:

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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
>
> - --
> Derek
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