Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Unix Gurus,
I have a script which runs vmstat and puts the output to a file.
I am pulling the runq,usr,sys,idle columns using awk

vmstat 2|awk {'print $1,$14,$15,$16'}

Now within this command is there any way i can pass the date too.
Please do let me know.


Thanks in advance.
Arun

Something like this:

Code:

vmstat 2|awk -v d="`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`" '{print $1,$14,$15,$16 " date: " d}'

Regards

Thank you very much for helping.
this works great for me

thanks again.
Arun:

oops sorry
I have added the time along, but i am seeing that the time is not changing at all.

Any help

$vmstat 5 12|awk -v d="`date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S"`" '{print $1":"$14":"$15":"$16 ":" d}'
::::2008-09-23-14-57-26
System::::2008-09-23-14-57-26
::::2008-09-23-14-57-26
kthr::::2008-09-23-14-57-26
-----::::2008-09-23-14-57-26
r:us:sy:id:2008-09-23-14-57-26
7:87:6:6:2008-09-23-14-57-26
4:79:5:15:2008-09-23-14-57-26
5:86:3:11:2008-09-23-14-57-26
6:89:4:7:2008-09-23-14-57-26
6:88:5:6:2008-09-23-14-57-26
6:90:3:6:2008-09-23-14-57-26
5:87:5:7:2008-09-23-14-57-26
6:89:5:6:2008-09-23-14-57-26

Thanks
Arun

To get the actual time with every record:

Code:

vmstat 5 12|
awk '{"date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S"|getline d
close("date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S")
print $1":"$14":"$15":"$16 ":" d}'

Regards

It works like a charm now,
thank you very much for helping.

Arun: