On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Sharan Basappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, this is really helpful. In addition, is there a way to print > the cpu cycles taken from *ux command prompt? > I have worked with tools that, at the end of their job, print out the > cpu cycles it took for them. > I would assume that they use some command from *ux to do this. snip
The time command in UNIX will give you the amount of time the program took to run, the amount of cpu time the program took to run, and the amount of time spent on system overhead: time ./q.pl real 0m0.013s user 0m0.007s sys 0m0.006s -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
