From 8d423d0f75bd2453e31c7945c4c97610362848b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 18:20:51 +0100 Subject: Add man page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- README | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index c168cdc..71a77bb 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2