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

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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 07:29:03 -0700
> From: enh <enh at google.com>
> To: Oliver Webb <aquahobbyist at proton.me>
> Cc: Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>, toybox at lists.landley.net
> Subject: Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] A implementaion of the ts command
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> 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.)
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> On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 6:11?AM Oliver Webb via Toybox
> <toybox at lists.landley.net> wrote:
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>> ------- Original Message -------
>> 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
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Is this a command you actually needed for something?
>>>
>>> Rob
>> 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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RFC3161

try

https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/man/ts
or
https://www.putorius.net/ts-command-add-convert-timestamps-linux.html