Phoenix

A small tool written in C to retrieve your Linux installation date

Usage

Classic

❯ phoenix
10 days, 1 hours and 18 minutes

Long option

You can use the --long option to display all values, even when they are 0.

❯ phoenix --long
0 years, 0 months, 10 days, 1 hours and 21 minutes

Raw mode

Phoenix offers a parameter for retrieving raw values, i.e. the system creation date in timestamp (seconds).

❯ phoenix --raw
1750001092

Only one unit

Phoenix also offers the --unique <unit> option for displaying a single value. The option is therefore incompatible with --long.

It must be accompanied by a value; the available values are :

• years / y
• months / m
• days / d
• hours / h
• minutes / min

❯ phoenix --unique hours
241 hours

❯ phoenix --unique days
10 days

Translation

You can use a translated version of phoenix (currently only available in French).

The translation is available with the --lang <lang> option. This is compatible with both classic and only one unit modes.

❯ phoenix --lang fr
10 jours, 1 heures et 33 minutes

❯ phoenix --lang fr --unique hours
241 heures

Installation

Prerequisites

To install this tool, you need :

• git
• gcc
• make

Installation

To install the tool, simply run this command sequence:

git clone https://github.com/oriionn/phoenix.git
cd phoenix
make install

Build

Prerequisites

To build this tool, you need :

• git
• gcc
• make

Building

To build the tool, simply execute this command sequence:

git clone https://github.com/oriionn/phoenix.git
cd phoenix
make build

Arch Linux

Installation

git clone https://github.com/oriionn/phoenix && cd phoenix
makepkg -si --cleanbuild
cd .. && rm -fr phoenix

Uninstall

# pacman -R phoenix-git