Reputation: 13
I'am trying to output an inline status with date
now="date -Iseconds"
echo "[" eval $now echo "] my log status"
this returning line
now="date -Iseconds"
echo "["; eval $now; echo "] my log status"
I don't whant to do
now=`date -Iseconds`
Because time clock between 2 logs status and it store the time when the variable is initialized
Upvotes: 1
Views: 2386
Reputation: 2683
You can do it all with just echo
echo $(date -Iseconds) my log status;
# 2017-08-16T01:18:25+00:00 my log status
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 46903
Use a function:
now() { date -Iseconds; }
echo "[$(now)] my log status"
Even better, you can use a function that will output your message, with the date prepended:
msg_now() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -Iseconds)" "$*"; }
and use as:
msg_now "my log status"
Upvotes: 1