On Jan 25, 2008 7:05 PM, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to keep track of how long a task is running. Thinking it wouldn't > take that long, I opted not to run time before it. The fact that it is > taking a long time, if I revisit the machine in the morning, what would be > the best way to find out what time it ended? > > In this case, I'm using mt to erase an lto3 tape - sudo mt -f /dev/st0 > erase. But I'd like to use the knowledge from this question to track > other events, too. > > I feel like I should know this answer, but cannot think of the solution at > the moment. > > Thanks. > > Scott
just add 'time' before your command. like this: time sudo mt -f /dev/st0 erase -- -matt _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
