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Name

uptime — tell how long the system has been running

Synopsis

uptime [OPTION...] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

Print the current time, the length of time the system has been up, the number of users on the system, and the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. Processes in an uninterruptible sleep state also contribute to the load average. If FILE is not specified, use /var/run/utmp/. /var/log/wtmp/ as FILE is common.

−−help

display this help and exit

−−version

output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, and Kaveh Ghazi.

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SEE ALSO

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/uptime>

or available locally via: info _zsingle_quotesz_(coreutils) uptime invocation_zsingle_quotesz_

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.