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uptime(1)

Name | Synopsis | Description | Examples | Attributes | See Also | Notes

Name

uptime– show how long the system has been up

Synopsis

uptime 

Description

The uptime command prints the current time, the length of time the system has been up, and the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. It is, essentially, the first line of a w(1) command.

Examples

Below is an example of the output uptime provides:

example% uptime 10:47am up 27 day(s), 50 mins, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWcsu

See Also

w(1), who(1), whodo(1M), attributes(5)

Notes

who -b gives the time the system was last booted.

Name | Synopsis | Description | Examples | Attributes | See Also | Notes