> Mark J. Reed writes: >> One-liner to display the boot time: >> $ perl -lane 'print ~~localtime(time-$F[0])' /proc/uptime > > Ronald Fischer wrote: >> Would you mind explaining the ~~ trick? > > Clever tricks are interesting, but definitely are an obfuscation. > This makes things more plain: > > perl -lane 'print(scalar(localtime(time() - int($F[0]))))' > /proc/uptime I don't know perl, but I did try both of these one-liners on my Cygwin 1.7 setup, and the output differs (by one second). I thought that was interesting.
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