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CF(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual CF(1)

cf - unix time to formated time and date filter

cf [-f fmt] [-lpsu] [file ...]

This filter reads the named files (or from stdin if there are none) and replaces numeric timestamps found at the beginning of each line with a formated time and date time and date. For example:

% echo '1074558944 default format' | cf
Jan 19 16:35:44 default format

The CFTIMEARGS environment variable can be used to specify a default set of flags. However, this is only honored if no flags are specified on the command line. Also, the only escapes recognized are ', " and \.

-f fmt
Specify a strftime(1) format string. For example:

% echo '1074558944 custom format' | cf -f %F-%T
2004-01-19-16:35:44 custom format

Using an empty format causes cf to revert to its default format ("%b %e %T").

-l
Use the long format which appends the year ("%Y"). For example:

% echo '1074558944 long format' | cf -l
Jan 19 16:35:44 2004 long format
-p
Preserve sub-second timestamp info. For example:

% echo '1100980501.867105 preserve format' | cf -p
Nov 20 11:55:01.867105 preserve format
-s
Do strict checking of the timestamp. The number is only considered to be a valid timestamp and converted if it 9 or more characters long and contains one or less dots.
-u
Format using UTC (Coordinated Universal) instead of local time.

hf(1), strftime(3)
January 22, 2006 4th Berkeley Distribution

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