[ale] line timestamp command

[Chuck Payne]

I haven't heard of any command, I do the same echo that you are doing.


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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