On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 08:39:35PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> I want to time a sequence of events over about five
> minutes, pressing a keyboard key and adding a
> timestamp to a file.
>
> I can do this by redirecting the output of xev to a
> file, then editing everything but the time field for
> the key presses and dividing by 1000, but there may
> already be a little program that does this the easy
> way. Any suggestions?
You could do it with a short bash script. Something like:
while read -n 1 -s in; do
echo "$(date)" | tee -a log.txt
done
That will log a time stamp to stdout and log.txt with each keystroke,
until it gets interrupted.
--
Paul
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