[Toybox] [PATCH] A implementaion of the ts command

[enh]

inferno had something similar
(https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/1/timestamp.html) but i don't
think it was ever in Plan 9 or the research unixes. (i've never used
the inferno timestamp(1) either, but then i never used inferno as
heavily as i used plan 9.)

On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 6:11 AM Oliver Webb via Toybox
<toybox at lists.landley.net> wrote:
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> On Friday, September 8th, 2023 at 2:38 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
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> > On 9/7/23 23:51, Oliver Webb via Toybox wrote:
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> > > I wrote a implementation of the command 'ts' for toybox
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> > Where is this command from? It's not in posix or lsb, nor is it in
> > https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_1.html and it's not installed on my
> > debian system either... You reference https://linux.die.net/man/1/ts which says
> > "Joey Hess", and googling for "joey hess ts" brings up:
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> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5314326
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> > Which says it's in something called "moreutils"... Which is one of the 74,850
> > packages currently in Debian's repository. (aptitude search . | wc -l)
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> > Let's see what it says:
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> > So far, it includes the following utilities:
> > * chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails
> > * combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
> > * errno: look up errno names and descriptions
> > * ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
> > * ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty
> > * isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8
> > * lckdo: execute a program with a lock held
> > * mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
> > * parallel: run multiple jobs at once
> > * pee: tee standard input to pipes
> > * sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
> > * ts: timestamp standard input
> > * vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
> > * vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
> > * zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command
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> > Is this a command you actually needed for something?
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> > Rob
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> The command is in the status page of toybox under “Not started yet” and marked as part of the yocto project. The reason I based the version I wrote off the moreutils command is because I couldn’t find documentation for the one in the yocto project, or any implementation of the command that wasn’t moreutils.
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> For use cases of the command, it can be used to create log files and measure the speed of parts of a command.
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