A long time ago I wrote a little utility to timestamp input from variable numbers of tty devices, iirc. I think I called it timestamp-input. It prefixed the timestamp (in unix time) and source. It was originally intended to interleave GPS data with instrument data to facilitate geo-tagging the instrument data. Not sure I could lay my hands on it again easily, but it was not terribly complex to write.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 1:45 PM Galen Seitz <gal...@seitzassoc.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was looking for a way to timestamp output from a serial port when I > stumbled onto a tool that I'd never heard of. The ts command, which is > part of moreutils, will place a timestamp in front of each line of > output from stdout. > > This: > echo -e "foo\nbar\nbaz" | ts '[%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S]' > > yields something like this: > [2021-07-27 13:37:36] foo > [2021-07-27 13:37:36] bar > [2021-07-27 13:37:36] baz > > > Combined with picocom and tee, my logging command looks like this: > > picocom -b 9600 /dev/ttyUSB0 | ts '[%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S]' | tee > "example_$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S").log" > > moreutils contains about a dozen other commands which might come in > handy at some point. > > <https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/> > > galen > -- > Galen Seitz > gal...@seitzassoc.com
