One-liner to display the boot time: $ perl -lane 'print ~~localtime(time-$F[0])' /proc/uptime
Or format it however you want, e.g. for ISO8601: $ perl -MPOSIX -lane 'print strftime("%FT%T", localtime(time-$F[0]))' /proc/uptime -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/