Frankie wrote: >I am sure that when I first started using debian/linux I had a program >(I think part of another packages), and if you ran "thisprogram >anotherprogram" then it would rum anotherprogram and tell you exactly >how much time was allocated to the running of that program. >I don't know where to look in dselect, so can anyone remember what it >was called? The program is called `time'; it is not a standalone program but part of bash: [EMAIL PROTECTED] type time time is a shell keyword [EMAIL PROTECTED] help time time: time [-p] PIPELINE Execute PIPELINE and print a summary of the real time, user CPU time, and system CPU time spent executing PIPELINE when it terminates. The return status is the return status of PIPELINE. The `-p' option prints the timing summary in a slightly different format. This uses the value of the TIMEFORMAT variable as the output format. times: times Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.
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