From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 02:15:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Filter-branch extend progress with a simple estimated time remaning
Message-ID: <20150826021517.GA20292@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQ1COjZuBq2YWKNdQ7zrzfvrppX-84vc9i1mJ6-yp_ZiQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:12:54PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> > A little googling came up with:
> >
> >     awk 'END { print systime() }' </dev/null
> >
> > which probably (?) works everywhere.
> 
> On Mac OS X and FreeBSD:
> 
>     $ awk 'END { print systime() }' </dev/null
>     awk: calling undefined function systime
>     source line number 1
>     $

Oh, well. The reference I saw was that the old Kernighan nawk had it,
but that seems not to be the case:

  http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/

"date +%s" seems to work on OS X, and so presumably on other BSDs. No
clue what would work on stuff like SunOS, AIX, etc.

-Peff