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
  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:

• RtssWriter — an io::Write wrapper and implementation, forwarding write() calls and annotating newlines.
• DurationExt — extends Duration with write_human(), write_sortable(), human_string() and sortable_string() methods.
• line_timing_copy() — wraps an io::Write in RtssWriter<BufWriter<W>> and calls io::copy() on it and the provided io::Read.

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.