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.Dd $Mdocdate: July 3 2022 $
.Dt TS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ts
.Nd timestamp input
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl i | s
.Op Fl m
.Op Ar format
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility prepends a timestamp to each line of standard input and writes
it to standard output.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl i
Display time elapsed since the last timestamp.
.It Fl m
Display timestamps derived from a strictly linearly increasing clock.
Without
.Fl m ,
timestamps reflect the current date and time, including time jumps if the
system time is changed.
.It Fl s
Display time elapsed since the start of the program.
.El
.Pp
The optional
.Ar format
argument controls how the timestamp is displayed, according to the conversion
specifications described in the
.Xr strftime 3
manual page.
The default format is
.Qq %b %d %H:%M:%S ;
or
.Qq %H:%M:%S
if one of the
.Fl i
or
.Fl s
options is used.
.Pp
Some additional conversion specifications are also supported
to append microsecond resolution:
.Cm %.S ,
.Cm %.s ,
and
.Cm %.T ;
which are similar to
.Cm %S ,
.Cm %s ,
and
.Cm \&%T .
Examples:
.Qq 10.00001 ,
.Qq 1656427781.00001 ,
and
.Qq 4:20:00.00001 .
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ (echo foo; sleep 2; echo bar) | ts
Jun 28 12:13:38 foo
Jun 28 12:13:40 bar

$ ls | ts -i %.S
00.000452 CVS
00.000595 Makefile
00.000004 ts.1
00.000004 ts.c
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr strftime 3
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm
utility first appeared in the moreutils collection by Joey Hess, and was
rewritten from scratch for
.Ox 7.2 .
.Sh AUTHORS
This
.Nm
utility was written by
.An Job Snijders Aq Mt job@openbsd.org
and
.An Claudio Jeker Aq Mt claudio@openbsd.org .