> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:46:45AM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I've migrated from Redhat Linux 9 to FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, > character mode > > - no gui. > > > > I'm trying to calculate the number of seconds between > $start_time and > > $end_time in a bash script. > > > > Start_time=`date +%s` # Seconds past midnight at start of script > > [ do lots of stuff ] > > End_time=`date +%s` # Seconds past midnight at end of script > > > > Then I want to: et=`bc $end_time - $start_time` to get the number of > > seconds or fractions of seconds elapsed. > How about: > > et=`echo "$end_time - $start_time" | bc`
Hi Jez, thanks for the reply! As my daughter would say, "Well, DUHHHHHHH!" That worked fine, it reported 0 seconds. Can I refine it to give me something like: .784 seconds? _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
