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uptime

uptime(1)							   User Commands							 uptime(1)

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.

SunOS 5.10							    18 Mar 1994 							 uptime(1)

Solaris