System uptime

[Tim Giltinan]

Is there a way to view the system uptime in seconds or minutes instead of the default uptime output?

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

i don't think there is any unix command to do that. It can be done through a script which parses uptime output and does the conversion.


-raj

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I believe the program nickel has a script function that does it.. (or something to that effect)

See http://www.grc.hp.com/docs/nickel/

Later,
Bill

[James Beamish-White]

Script expr statements with ifs.

e.g. to get mins
if [ `uptime | awk '{print $4}'` = "days," ]
then
echo `expr `uptime | awk '{print $3}'` \* 1440`
elsif
uptime | awk '{print $3}'
fi

Cheers,
James

[James Beamish-White]

Sorry, that script didn't actually work when I tried it, this one does:

#!/bin/sh

if [ `uptime | awk '{print $4}'` = "days," ]
then
expr `uptime | awk '{print $3}'` \* 1440
else
uptime | awk '{print $3}'
fi


James

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi James,
You forgot to add the hours and minutes to your days_converted.to.minutes...


All the best

Victor