On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Evan Rempel <[email protected]> wrote: > > The task is easy to solve in nearly any language, but I can not depend on > awk, perl, python, tcl, java or any other interpreter to be available in > all of the enviroments where the problem of missing timestamps on log lines > occurs. IMHO one of the greatest strengths of the core (or more) utils is > that they provide this consistency and standardization when nothing else > does. >
I think you could probably count on the presence of awk more certainly than the presence of an up-to-date "date".
