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.TH TIMEPREFIX 1 TIMEPREFIX
.SH NAME
timeprefix \- Prefix the current time to each line
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B timeprefix
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B timeprefix
 reads stdin line by line and prefix the current time
(at the point the line has been fully read) to each
line and prints the prefixed line to stdout.
.PP
The timestamp is written in both decimal boot time
and human-readable real time (in UTC), with with
boot time first so that muliple generated log files
can merged into one with
.B sort
.BR --merge .
.PP
.B timeprefix
also marks when the program started and terminated.