diff --git a/tools/timestamp b/tools/timestamp
deleted file mode 100755
index 16db8c988..000000000
--- a/tools/timestamp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# We run perl through a shell to avoid having to hard-code the path to perl
-perl -e '$|=1; while(<>) {print time . " $_";}'