SYNOPSIS

       uptime [OPTION]... [ FILE ]

DESCRIPTION

       Print  the current time, the length of time the system has been up, the
       number of users on the system, and the average number of  jobs  in  the
       run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes.  If FILE is not specified,
       use /var/run/utmp.  /var/log/wtmp as FILE is common.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, and Kaveh Ghazi.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software.  You may redistribute copies  of  it  under  the
       terms       of       the      GNU      General      Public      License
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  There is NO WARRANTY,  to  the
       extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation  for uptime is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
       If the info and uptime programs are properly installed  at  your  site,
       the command

              info uptime

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU coreutils 6.9                 March 2007                         UPTIME(1)