System Uptime Utility Posted by dwirch

Posted On 2017-11-12

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This is a simple but useful command line utility for determining the uptime of the local computer.

That's it. That's all it does. I wrote this some time ago, and have found it useful over the years for monitoring up time of several systems. Really. A simple way of sending this to a central location would be to simply pipe the output to a shared location. Say, a file server share. Something like this:

uptime H >> D:\%computername%_uptime.txt

Like I said, I have found it useful over the years, and hope you do as well.

Help Screen

By using the ? command line switch, you can view the available command line options, as shown below.

V:\Uptime10>uptime ?



UpTime 1.0.0

(c) 2017 FortyPoundHead.com

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This program simply returns the uptime of the local system, with the choice of days, hours, minutes, or seconds.



To select a display mode, simpy use one of the following command-line switches:



D Days

H Hours

M Minutes

S Seconds

? Display this information



Example:



uptime D



will result in the following output, if the local system has been up for seven days:



7

Sample Runs

Here are few sample runs, one for each of the available command line switches:

V:\Uptime10>uptime D

7



V:\Uptime10>uptime H

174



V:\Uptime10>uptime M

10443



V:\Uptime10>uptime S

626607

License

This software is free to use. Free for commercial use, personal use, whatever. I do retain all copyrights, though.

Special Instructions

No setup for this program is required. Simply drop it into a directory somewhere in path, and it will be available to you for use.

If you do not put in a location in the path, you'll have to reference it by its full path and filename.

Requirements

No special requirements. No external libraries needed, no internet access, nothing.

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