Mark J. Reed writes: > One-liner to display the boot time: > $ perl -lane 'print ~~localtime(time-$F[0])' /proc/uptime
Ronald Fischer wrote: > Would you mind explaining the ~~ trick? Clever tricks are interesting, but definitely are an obfuscation. This makes things more plain: perl -lane 'print(scalar(localtime(time() - int($F[0]))))' /proc/uptime -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/