[PLUG] Adding timestamp to log file entry

[Robert Citek]

Hello Rich,

Assuming that is in a bash script, you can do something like this:

    echo $(date +%FT%T%:z) ${NEWIP} >> "/home/rshepard/getiplog"

See the man page for date for various formatting strings.

Regards,
- Robert

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    Cron runs a shell script to see if Frontier has changed my IP address. If
> the address has changed the new one is appended to a log file:
>
>                    echo $NEWIP >> "/home/rshepard/getiplog"
>
>    How do I add a timestamp to that file along with the new IP address? Can I
> do something like 'echo $timestamp $NEWIP ...'?
>
> Rich
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