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CLI: Add sys.message() and timestamps to log
I noticed that my sys.message() output is not in the logfiles created with "-l" of the CLI. It would be nice if they would as I could then "grep" those logs to get a small statistic at the end of a run. e.g. how many devices where skipped due to some condition and how many where processed as planned.
Also it would be nice if those logfiles would include a timestamp on every line. That way one could see if a certain command always took e.g. 50-55s and if it then fails at a timeout of 60s it was no "problem" but rather just a too low timeout setting.
While that makes sense, I would worry about runtime effects. Essentially, the response from the device is a constant stream; the message would need to be inserted into that stream and may affect post-processing there. I am not sure how and where to best modify the stream to prevent any problems.
A constant stream maybe a but CLI it's usually a line based one so you could add sys.message() output or timestamps right after the next newline you output. Timestamping could work like "ls -al | ts" on the shell which prefixes every line with the current timestamp.