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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Appending standard C Time on each line out output Post 302576416 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 24th of November 2011 07:07:19 PM
Old 11-24-2011
The file that gets appended, let's call it logfile, the new file: newlogfile
Code:
tail -f logfile | nawk '{ print srand(), $0}'  > newlogfile

You don't want the BEGIN{} function.
 

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