[HOW TO] ts: command not found and how to fix?

Hi Everybody,

I have been writing the script to get latency networking. And I have a interesting thing. So, here is a part of script:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
        ping -w 3600 example.com |
        ts '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S |' |
        tee -i -a /home/cattek/Scripts/Logs/ping.log
done

ts: command not found

What is "ts"? to simplify I type apt-cache search ts. But nothing to show. Where can I find it?

Googled, I know "ts" includes in moreutils library. It utilities package every UNIX/Linux/MacOS developer should know (I'm not developer lol). It is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.

The moreutils tools includes:

• chronic
• combine
• errno
• ifdata
• ifne
• isutf8
• lckdo
• mispipe
• parallel
• pee
• sponge
• ts
• vidir
• vipe
• zrunts: command not found

It enoughs to continue,

apt-get install moreutils

Now everything looks like good. I have to run this script. Good, nothing error to show.

Above article is very simple when we see it. I think about this, and write blog.

Thank you for reading this article, please a comment if you are interested.

Tiến Phan - R0039

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