On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:57:10AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > OK -- dumb question that I can't remember the answer to and can't find > by googling. > > How the heck do I time how long it takes a certain script to run? > > I've searched the archives and google and apropos and apt-cache on all > kinds of variations of "time" (timing, timer, etc) and can't find > anything.
`time <command>' It's a bash built-in, at least for bda@eos:~$ bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) This is the second hit I get from googling for `bash time built-in': http://www.ss64.demon.co.uk/bash/time.html ... bda@eos:~$ time ls -lF total 32 drwxr-xr-x 15 bda bda 4096 Jan 1 05:41 Endymion/ drwx------ 2 bda bda 4096 Dec 17 08:21 Mail/ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 21 17:39 Media/ drwxr-xr-x 3 bda bda 4096 Dec 17 16:37 bin/ drwx------ 3 bda bda 4096 Dec 30 02:52 etc/ drwxr-sr-x 7 bda bda 4096 Dec 25 22:03 img/ drwxr-xr-x 6 bda bda 4096 Jan 2 05:01 tmp/ drwxr-sr-x 13 bda bda 4096 Dec 28 16:31 txt/ real 0m0.005s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.010s ... Other shells, YMMV. -- bda Cyberpunk is dead. Long live cyberpunk. http://mirrorshades.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
