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macosuptime

OSX: programmatically get uptime?

Something similar to linux

cat /proc/uptime

which returns the uptime in seconds, and preferably not parsing uptime(1).

Solution

  • The Uptime article on Wikipedia has an interesting lead:

    Using sysctl

    There is also a method of using sysctl to call the system's last boot time: $ sysctl kern.boottime kern.boottime: { sec = 1271934886, usec = 667779 } Thu Apr 22 12:14:46 2010

    Which references sysctl(8), which references sysctl(3).