Paul E Condon wrote:
Try:bgn=$(date +%s) sleep 7 end=$(date +%s) echo "elapsed seconds = " $(( end - bgn ))
You might also want to experiment with: ps h -o etime $$as long as you're happy with it only running under gnu. Prints the elapsed time for the shell.
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