What am I missing here, would like to add date and/or time to line of output

vmstat 2 |awk '{now=strftime("%T/%m/%d/%y"); print now $0}'

%T/%m/%d/%y kthr      memory            page            disk          faults 
cpu
%T/%m/%d/%y r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr s0 s1 s2 s3   in   sy 
cs us sy id
%T/%m/%d/%y 0 0 0 12959104 6610240 28 49 15 2 1  0  0  0  0  0  0  390 1028 
622  3  1 96
%T/%m/%d/%y 0 0 0 13612432 7113680 310 29 2304 0 0 0 0 0  0  0  0  796  532 
561  0  2 98

Thanks in advance for your time.

John

macka wrote:
> What am I missing here, would like to add date and/or time to line of output
> vmstat 2 |awk '{now=strftime("%T/%m/%d/%y"); print now $0}'
> %T/%m/%d/%y kthr      memory            page            disk          faults
> cpu
> %T/%m/%d/%y r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr s0 s1 s2 s3   in   sy
> cs us sy id
> %T/%m/%d/%y 0 0 0 12959104 6610240 28 49 15 2 1  0  0  0  0  0  0  390 1028
> 622  3  1 96
> %T/%m/%d/%y 0 0 0 13612432 7113680 310 29 2304 0 0 0 0 0  0  0  0  796  532
> 561  0  2 98
> Thanks in advance for your time.

This isnt linux (that uses gawk but calls it awk). Write your own
strftime function
on an awk that supports functions or use gawk.

macka <macka@comcast.net> wrote:

> What am I missing here, would like to add date and/or time to line of output
> vmstat 2 |awk '{now=strftime("%T/%m/%d/%y"); print now $0}'

  You need 'gawk' instead of 'awk' here.
  You can do with regular shell, something like this:

vmstat 2 | while read line; do echo "`date +%T/%m/%d/%y`" "$line" ; done


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