how to time length of process invoked from the command line ?
dan
info at hostinthebox.net
Tue May 17 01:12:51 UTC 2005
Craig Thomas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know of a simple way to determine how long any given command
> takes to run when issued from the command line? I've googled and turned
> up lots of timing a process type results...but I've had no luck
> recognizing a solution [poor google searches -- not sure what I'm
> searching for really]. I'm creating some cron jobs for backups and just
> want to schedule them far enough apart I'm not writing old data.
>
> there's surely something like this that will do what I need:
>
> #tar -czf ~/.evolution email.tar.gz | someapptotimemyprocess
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
You can prefix your command with the command "time":
time "tar -czf ~/.evolution email.tar.gz"
Thanks
-dant
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