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-A small program to prefixes the current time a line
-is written to its stdin.
+NAME
+ timeprefix - Prefix the current time to each line
-If you use this to generate log files, you can use
-`sort --merge` to create on log file from multiple
-log files.
+SYNOPSIS
+ timeprefix
+
+DESCRIPTION
+ timeprefix ignores all arguments. It 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.
+
+ 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
+ sort --merge.