Nicely format uptime

[10maurycy10]

read-file allows displaying uptime in seconds.

Is it possible to display uptime in nicer units?

[orestisfl]

The uptime in my system allows this:

$ uptime --pretty
up 4 hours, 36 minutes

[10maurycy10]

The uptime in my system allows this:

$ uptime --pretty
up 4 hours, 36 minutes

calling a command in the status is rather inefficient.

I can also not find a clean way to integrate with uptime in i3status.

For now I have forked the repo.

[orestisfl]

The intent of the read_file directive is to run arbitrary commands. Complete example:

i3status config:

order += "read_file uptime"

read_file uptime {
    path = "/tmp/uptime"
}

And, somewhere else, start a script that will continuously update /tmp/uptime. For example:

while true; do uptime --pretty > /tmp/uptime; sleep 1; done

[10maurycy10]

constant disk writes, seem inefficient.

[orestisfl]

/tmp is usually an in-memory tmpfs.

Besides, it's a few bytes (<100) per second. Comparatively nothing to using a modern browser.

Either way, feel free to maintain the fork if you'd prefer :)