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I want to convert uptime to date DD:MM:YY without the | and I want to put a string like "the computer is on since 23-feb-16"

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    What is the output of your uptime command? What distro are you using? On Ubuntu, uptime outputs something like "16:25:06 up 47 days, 8:50, 2 users, load average: ..." The "16:25:06" is the time. The "up 47 days, 8:50" is up 47 days, 8 hours and 50 minutes" So, are you wanting to do a date/time calculation on the "47 days, 8:50" or is the output of your uptime different? Could you edit your question to show the output of the uptime command you are using?
    – Lewis M
    Nov 20, 2018 at 21:28
  • do you like uptime -p ?
    – Jeff Schaller ♦
    Nov 20, 2018 at 21:29

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You may get it for free from the output of last reboot:

$ last reboot
reboot   system boot  4.14.81-i7       Sat Nov 17 23:25   still running
reboot   system boot  4.14.80-i7       Fri Nov 16 09:16 - 15:49  (06:33)

$ printf "On since: "; last reboot | grep "still running" | cut -c 40-56
On since: Sat Nov 17 23:25 

$ printf "On since: " ; last reboot --time-format iso | grep "still running" | cut -c 40-49
On since: 2018-11-17

Your uptime command might also have the -s option:

$ uptime -s
2018-11-17 23:25:23

Since this format is acceptable to date -d, you can reformat the time however you wish like this::

$ date -d "$(uptime -s)" "+On since: %d:%m:%y"
On since: 17:11:18
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  • "%d:%m:%y" must be the most perverse date format string I've seen outside of xkcd.com/1179 :)
    – Scott Centoni
    May 12 at 22:20
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Single command.

$ date -r /proc/1 '+The computer is on since %d-%b-%y'
The computer is on since 09-Oct-18
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Using the last data modification of /proc directory given by stat:

date -d "@$(stat -c '%Y' "/proc")" +'%F %T %z'

Example:

$ stat /proc
  File: `/proc'
  Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 1024   directory
Device: 3h/3d   Inode: 1           Links: 188
Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2020-09-04 16:36:02.016000956 +0200
Modify: 2020-09-04 16:36:02.016000956 +0200
Change: 2020-09-04 16:36:02.016000956 +0200
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$ date -d "@$(stat -c '%Y' "/proc")" +'%F %T %z'
2020-09-04 16:36:02 +0200
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