rtss — Relative TimeStamps for Stuff

rtss annotates its output with relative durations between consecutive lines and since program start.

It can be used as a filter in a pipeline:

-% cargo build --release 2>&1 | rtss 274.1ms 274.1ms | Compiling libc v0.2.40 1.50s 1.22s | Compiling memchr v2.0.1 2.28s 780.8ms | Compiling rtss v0.5.0 (file:///home/freaky/code/rtss) 5.18s 2.90s | Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 5.17 secs 5.18s exit code: 0

It can also directly run commands, annotating both stdout and stderr with durations. stdin is passed through to the child process, and its exit code will become rtss' own exit code:

``` -% rtss sh -c "echo foo; echo bar; sleep 1; echo moo >&2; sleep 1; echo baz; exit 64" 1.7ms 1.7ms | foo 1.7ms | bar 1.00s 1.00s # moo 2.03s 2.03s | baz 2.03s exit code: 64 zsh: exit 64 rtss sh -c

-% rtss sh -c "echo foo; echo bar; sleep 1; echo moo >&2; sleep 1; echo baz; exit 64" 2>/dev/null 1.9ms 1.9ms | foo 1.9ms | bar 2.05s 2.04s | baz 2.05s exit code: 64 zsh: exit 64 rtss sh -c 2> /dev/null ```

Blank durations indicate lines were read in a single read(). Line durations are per-descriptor, so stderr and stdout have their own distinct durations.

Output suitable for piping to sort -k2 can be requested with -s / --sortable:

-% rtss --sortable sh -c "echo foo; echo bar; sleep 1; echo moo >&2; sleep 1; echo baz; exit 64" 00:00:00.001652 00:00:00.001652 | foo 00:00:00.001652 00:00:00.000000 | bar 00:00:01.007287 00:00:01.007287 # moo 00:00:02.071962 00:00:02.070309 | baz 00:00:02.072185 exit code: 64

PTY mode

For programs that buffer their output or otherwise alter their behaviour when connected to pipes, the --pty (aka --tty) option will, on supported platforms, run the command under a pseudo-terminal.

``` -% rtss zpool status 5 rtss zpool status 5 10.01s 10.01s | pool: rpool 10.01s | state: ONLINE 10.01s | scan: scrub repaired 0 in 1h7m with 0 errors on Wed May 2 04:00:38 2018

-% rtss --pty zpool status 5 4.2ms 4.2ms | pool: rpool 4.2ms | state: ONLINE 4.5ms 0.3ms | scan: scrub repaired 0 in 1h7m with 0 errors on Wed May 2 04:00:38 2018 ```

API

The backend of rtss is provided as a library for use in other programs. This includes:

``` use std::io::{self, Write}; use std::time::{Duration, Instant};

extern crate rtss; use rtss::{RtssWriter, DurationExt};

fn main() -> io::Result<()> { let mut writer = RtssWriter::new(io::stdout(), Duration::human_string, '|', &Instant::now()); writer.write(b"Hello!\n")?; writer.write(b"World!\n")?; Ok(()) } ```

Output:

0.2μs 0.2μs | Hello! 84.7μs 84.6μs | World!

Installation

If you have Cargo installed you can install the latest release with:

cargo install rtss

You can also install the latest bleeding-edge version using:

cargo install --git https://github.com/Freaky/rtss.git

Alternatively you can clone and build manually without installing:

git clone https://github.com/Freaky/rtss.git && cd rtss && cargo build --release && target/release/rtss echo It works

Alternatives

rtss was inspired by Kevin Burke's tss.

Both are basically trendier versions of ts from moreutils.