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hfs/prepend-timestamp.pl

Created March 25, 2013 16:21
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Prepend the current timestamp in ISO8601 format in front of every line of output. Separator is an optional parameter, default is tab.
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prepend-timestamp.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -p
use POSIX;
BEGIN {
$| = 1;
$separator = shift or $separator = "\t";
}
print strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", localtime), $separator
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