RE: linux boot time

[merlyn]

or more simply:

perl -ne 'print scalar localtime $1 if /^btime (\d+)/' /proc/stat

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[nico57]

Easier yet with sed and date:

date -d @$(sed -n '/^btime /s///p' /proc/stat)

(OK, there's no Perl here, but that was just for the thrill of "improving" upon a Randal L. Schwartz solution :)

[merlyn]

My "date" here doesn't have a "-d" that works that way. Nor is @$(...) standard. I suspect you're coding full of linuxisms without realizing it, although in this context, it's fair since it was about a "linux" boot time.