UPTIME(1)

NAME
uptime - tell how long the system has been running

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. Processes in an uninterruptible sleep state also contribute to the load average. 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 uptime bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report uptime translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. 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 coreutils 'uptime invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.