On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> Would you mind explaining the ~~ trick?
Not at all, but I'll do so offlist. Perl-fu is not on-topic for Cygwin.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
> Clever tricks are interesting, but definitely are an obfuscation.
It'
--On 02 February 2009 11:54 -0500 Cooper, Karl \(US SSA\) wrote:
I don't know perl, but I did try both of these one-liners on my
Cygwin 1.7 setup, and the output differs (by one second). I thought
that was interesting.
I get a one second difference between the two formulae as well (due to the
> Mark J. Reed writes:
>> One-liner to display the boot time:
>> $ perl -lane 'print ~~localtime(time-$F[0])' /proc/uptime
>
> Ronald Fischer wrote:
>> Would you mind explaining the ~~ trick?
>
> Clever tricks are interesting, but definitely are an obfuscation.
> This makes things more plain:
>
Mark J. Reed writes:
> One-liner to display the boot time:
> $ perl -lane 'print ~~localtime(time-$F[0])' /proc/uptime
Ronald Fischer wrote:
> Would you mind explaining the ~~ trick?
Clever tricks are interesting, but definitely are an obfuscation.
This makes things more plain:
perl -lane 'print
Mark J. Reed gmail.com> writes:
> One-liner to display the boot time:
>
> $ perl -lane 'print ~~localtime(time-$F[0])' /proc/uptime
Thanks a lot! This is great!
Would you mind explaining the ~~ trick? localtime returns a list, so
I would have concluded that applyiing ~ to this list would forc
--On 30 January 2009 10:58 -0500 Brian Mathis wrote:
I've noticed that, on Vista, "net stats srv" always seems to return
1980, while systeminfo returns the correct result.
On this Vista system right now "net stats srv" says:
Statistics since 27/01/2009 16:04:50
systeminfo says
System Boot
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Ronald Fischer
wrote:
> Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
>> man uptime
>
> I have thought of uptime, but this requires doing date calculation (I have to
> subtract the uptime from the current time), which I wanted to avoid; plus I
> wanted to have it reproducible (i.e
One-liner to display the boot time:
$ perl -lane 'print ~~localtime(time-$F[0])' /proc/uptime
Or format it however you want, e.g. for ISO8601:
$ perl -MPOSIX -lane 'print strftime("%FT%T", localtime(time-$F[0]))'
/proc/uptime
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>But it seems there is no alternative. I had not expected that Windows would
>not log such events, like starting up or having some user logged in...
Windows does log such events in the system protocol/event log :)
But I don't know if you can get this info from cygwin...
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Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
> man uptime
I have thought of uptime, but this requires doing date calculation (I have to
subtract the uptime from the current time), which I wanted to avoid; plus I
wanted to have it reproducible (i.e. if I calculate the "startup time" twice
in succession, I wanted t
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According to Ronald Fischer on 1/30/2009 6:02 AM:
> I'm a bit desperate. I'm looking for a way to find EITHER the time the system
> was booted, OR the time the last user had logged in, OR the time I had logged
> in (of course it would be great if I c
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