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Created May 9, 2014 13:45
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tiny shell script for adding timestamps to lines piped in from stdin
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timestamper.sh
while read f; do
date +"%H:%M:%S " | tr -d '\n';
echo $f;
done
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mjg123 commented May 9, 2014

[~] cat | ./timestamper.sh
Hello
14:46:45 Hello
how are you
14:46:50 how are you

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mjg123 commented May 9, 2014

or, as a one-liner:

some-fancy-command | while read f; do date +"%H:%M:%S " | tr -d '\n'; echo $f; done

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