SUMMARY: timestamp with vmstat

Thanks to all who contributed to this question. All of the responses were a=
ppreciated and helpful.

Mostly, the suggestions were to pipe the vmstat output into a command list =
that applies the time stamp to each line.

Example from Bluejay Adametz:
run in ksh
# vmstat | { while read LINE ; do echo `date +%H:%M` "$LINE" ; done ; }

I applied this to my script and it works.

I received other variations, but went with the above.

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**Thanks very much to the other suggestions as well:

-Dr. Thomas P. Blinn : Suggested using an inline solution as above, and usi=
ng "awk" to further enhance the script.

-Joe Fletcher: create a loop:
        while true
        do
        date
        vmstat 1 1
        sleep 60
        done >> logfile

-James Sainsbury:
dated_vmstat() {
        vmstat 60 50 | while read line
        do
                printf "%-6.6s %s\n" "`date +%H:%M`" "$line"
        done
}

-Shaun Racine: Suggested using the 'collect' utility.

-James Eiler: Suggested piping the vmstat output to a timestamp script.
        #!/bin/ksh
        while read INPUT; do
        echo `date +"%a %h %d %T"`:: "$INPUT"
        done
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Original Post (jhalte):
I currently have a cronjob that runs at the top of the hour for every hour =
of the day.  This cronjob calls a script to run vmstat once every 60 second=
s 59 times, and send output to a log file. This basically will run vmstat o=
nce per minute, for 59 minutes.

crontab

0 * * * * /runDirectory/vmstat_by_minute

Script "vmstat_by_minute" (summary, not exact syntax)
        -adds start time stamp      >> myTargetFile
        -executes vmstat 60 59      >> myTargetFile
        -adds Completion time stamp >> myTargetFile

Since this is run once/hour, I can time stamp the start and end,
but would like to time stamp each line (minute) of vmstat output.

Logfile output Example:
Begin vmstat running on ras2 at: 20080103_0000

Virtual Memory Statistics: (pagesize =3D 8192)
procs      memory        pages                            intr       cpu
r   w   u  act free wire fault  cow zero react pin pout  in  sy  cs us sy i=
d
10 937  54 300K 157K  47K    1G 110M 257M   921  98M  0  97  7K  3K  1  2 9=
7
 8 932  54 300K 157K  47K 31513 4999 6838     0 4095  0 113 10K  4K  1  4 9=
5
 9 931  54 300K 157K  47K 15170 1079 3388     0 1009  0  95  7K  3K  1  2 9=
7
.
.
.
8 927  54 300K 157K  47K 15099 1085 3401     0 1024   0  93  7K  3K  1  2 9=
7
V M S T A T  Server2  C O M P L E T E at: 20080103_0000

What I'd like is

Begin vmstat running on ras2 at: 20080103_0000

Virtual Memory Statistics: (pagesize =3D 8192)Virtual Memory Statistics: (p=
agesize =3D 8192)
procs      memory        pages        intr       cpu
Time    r   w   u  act free wire fault...in  sy  cs us sy id
01:01 10 937  54 300K 157K  47K  1G ...97  7K  3K  1  2 97
01:02 10 937  54 300K 157K  47K  1G ...97  7K  3K  1  2 97

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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James Halte
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