mklog

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

Release files for mklog 1.4.1

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for mklog 1.4.1
File	Size	Uploaded
mklog-1.4.1.tar.gz	29.0 kB	Oct 29, 2025	Details

Built distribution (wheel)

Table of built distributions (wheels) for mklog 1.4.1
File	Interpreter	ABI	Platform	Reset
mklog-1.4.1-py3-none-any.whl 20.4 kB Oct 29, 2025	Python 3	none	any	Details

Total release size: 49.4 kB

Release files / mklog-1.4.1.tar.gz

Download URL	mklog-1.4.1.tar.gz
Size	29.0 kB
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Upload date	Oct 29, 2025
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? What is trusted publishing?	No
Uploaded via	`twine/6.2.0 CPython/3.13.9`

Release files / mklog-1.4.1-py3-none-any.whl

Download URL	mklog-1.4.1-py3-none-any.whl
Size	20.4 kB
Tags	Python 3
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Upload date	Oct 29, 2025
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? What is trusted publishing?	No
Uploaded via	`twine/6.2.0 CPython/3.13.9`