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Outputs only the 'up' section of the uptime command in pretty form, supporting most Linux distro and Mac OS X.
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#!/bin/sh | |
# Referenced this stackoverflow answer by John1024: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28353785/2372698 | |
uptime -p >/dev/null 2>&1 | |
if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then | |
# Supports most Linux distro | |
# when the machine is up for less than '0' minutes then | |
# 'uptime -p' returns ONLY 'up', so we need to set a default value | |
UP_SET_OR_EMPTY=$(uptime -p | awk -F 'up ' '{print $2}') | |
UP=${UP_SET_OR_EMPTY:-'less than a minute'} | |
else | |
# Supports Mac OS X, Debian 7, etc | |
UP=$(uptime | sed -E 's/^[^,]*up *//; s/mins/minutes/; s/hrs?/hours/; | |
s/([[:digit:]]+):0?([[:digit:]]+)/\1 hours, \2 minutes/; | |
s/^1 hours/1 hour/; s/ 1 hours/ 1 hour/; | |
s/min,/minutes,/; s/ 0 minutes,/ less than a minute,/; s/ 1 minutes/ 1 minute/; | |
s/ / /; s/, *[[:digit:]]* users?.*//') | |
fi | |
echo "up $UP" |
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