Append date and time before text
Project description
mklog is a python program that converts standard input, content of files, or output of a command in a log-like format, i.e. current date and time is prepended to each line.
Run mklog –help for the list of available options; see examples below.
Example
Download using wget:
$ mklog -c wget https://archive.org/download/Popeye_Nearlyweds/Popeye_Nearlyweds.ogv
2015-02-05 13:13:41 --2015-02-05 13:13:41-- http://t/
2015-02-05 13:13:41 Résolution de t (t)… échec : Nom ou service inconnu.
2015-02-05 13:13:41 wget : impossible de résoudre l'adresse de l'hôte « t »
2015-02-05 13:13:41 --2015-02-05 13:13:41-- https://archive.org/download/Popeye_Nearlyweds/Popeye_Nearlyweds.ogv
2015-02-05 13:13:41 Résolution de archive.org (archive.org)… 207.241.224.2
2015-02-05 13:13:41 Connexion à archive.org (archive.org)|207.241.224.2|:443… connecté.
2015-02-05 13:13:42 requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse… 302 Moved Temporarily
2015-02-05 13:13:42 Emplacement : https://ia700502.us.archive.org/6/items/Popeye_Nearlyweds/Popeye_Nearlyweds.ogv [suivant]
2015-02-05 13:13:42 --2015-02-05 13:13:42-- https://ia700502.us.archive.org/6/items/Popeye_Nearlyweds/Popeye_Nearlyweds.ogv
2015-02-05 13:13:42 Résolution de ia700502.us.archive.org (ia700502.us.archive.org)… 207.241.237.122
2015-02-05 13:13:42 Connexion à ia700502.us.archive.org (ia700502.us.archive.org)|207.241.237.122|:443… connecté.
2015-02-05 13:13:43 requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse… 200 OK
2015-02-05 13:13:43 Taille : 26698780 (25M) [video/ogg]
2015-02-05 13:13:43 Sauvegarde en : « Popeye_Nearlyweds.ogv »
2015-02-05 13:13:43
2015-02-05 13:13:44 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 0% 126K 3m26s
[...]
2015-02-05 13:14:18 26000K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 541K 0s
2015-02-05 13:14:18 26050K .......... .......... ... 100% 5,80M=34s
2015-02-05 13:14:18
2015-02-05 13:14:18 2015-02-05 13:14:18 (762 KB/s) — « Popeye_Nearlyweds.ogv » sauvegardé [26698780/26698780]
2015-02-05 13:14:18
2015-02-05 13:14:18 Terminé — 2015-02-05 13:14:18 —
2015-02-05 13:14:18 Temps total effectif : 37s
2015-02-05 13:14:18 Téléchargés : 1 fichiers, 25M en 34s (762 KB/s)
Monitor logs (which are not dated):
$ tail -f /var/log/gdm3/\:0.log | mklog
What’s new?
See changelog.
Download and install
See the end of list for a (quick and dirty) Debian package.
From sources:
Download: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mklog
Install (in a virtualenv, not to mess with your distribution installation system):
python3 setup.py install
With pip:
pip install mklog
Quick and dirty Debian (and Ubuntu?) package
This requires stdeb to be installed:
python3 setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/mklog-<VERSION>_all.deb
See also
See also (other program with the same purpose):
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