ovsdb-client: Add optional timestamps to "monitor" command output.

[openvswitch] / ovsdb / ovsdb-client.1.in

diff --git a/ovsdb/ovsdb-client.1.in b/ovsdb/ovsdb-client.1.in
index e513a3bb118dee7d4abcc032712669da5f891d8d..0065ced3bcb4fd301a9fd1cd4173289444312ca4 100644 (file)
--- a/ovsdb/ovsdb-client.1.in
+++ b/ovsdb/ovsdb-client.1.in
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ ovsdb\-client \- command-line interface to \fBovsdb-server\fR(1)
 [\fB\-\-pretty\fR]
 [\fB\-\-bare\fR]
 [\fB\-\-no\-heading\fR]
+[\fB\-\-timestamp\fR]
 .so lib/daemon-syn.man
 .so lib/vlog-syn.man
 .so lib/ssl-syn.man
@@ -137,6 +138,12 @@ The following options controlling output formatting:
 .ds TD (default)
 .so lib/table.man
 .
+.IP "\fB\-\-timestamp\fR"
+For the \fB\-\-monitor\fR command, adds a timestamp to each table
+update.  Most output formats add the timestamp on a line of its own
+just above the table.  The JSON output format puts the timestamp in a
+member of the top-level JSON object named \fBtime\fR.
+.
 .SS "Daemon Options"
 The daemon options apply only to the \fBmonitor\fR command.  With any
 other command, they have no effect.