This is a simple but useful command line utility for determining the uptime of the local computer.
That’s it. That’s all it does. I wrote this some time ago and have found it useful over the years for monitoring up time of several systems. Really. A simple way of sending this to a central location would be to simply pipe the output to a shared location. Say, a file server share. Something like this:
uptime H >> D:\%computername%_uptime.txt
Like I said, I have found it useful over the years, and hope you do as well.
Help Screen
By using the ? command line switch, you can view the available command line options, as shown below.
V:\Uptime10>uptime ?
UpTime 1.0.0
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This program simply returns the uptime of the local system, with the choice of days, hours, minutes, or seconds.
To select a display mode, simpy use one of the following command-line switches:
D Days
H Hours
M Minutes
S Seconds
? Display this information
Example:
uptime D
will result in the following output, if the local system has been up for seven days:
7
Sample Runs
Here are few sample runs, one for each of the available command line switches:
V:\Uptime10>uptime D
7
V:\Uptime10>uptime H
174
V:\Uptime10>uptime M
10443
V:\Uptime10>uptime S
626607
License
This software is free to use. Free for commercial use, personal use, whatever. I do retain all copyrights, though.
Requirements
No special requirements. No external libraries needed, no internet access, nothing.
Special Instructions
No setup for this program is required. Simply drop it into a directory somewhere in path, and it will be available to you for use.
If you do not put in a location in the path, you’ll have to reference it by its full path and filename.