On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:11:55 -0500 "Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Charles, > > > > This will set bc precision to 5 decimal places: > > > > et=`echo "scale=5 ; $end_time - $start_time" | bc` > > Ohhh, I was really hoping on that one...but no, it still reports 0 > seconds. Sorry I jumped the gun there, the scale is needed for this to work but the "date +%s" willonly resolve into whole seconds after reading the date man page. I sure am curious as to how to solve this also, the /usr/bin/time command man page says this: -----------------snip------------------ DESCRIPTION The time utility executes and times the specified utility. After the utility finishes, time writes to the standard error stream, (in seconds): the total time elapsed, the time used to execute the utility process and the time consumed by system overhead. -----------------snip------------------ So that looks like seconds only also. A quick browse through "man sh" and "man bash" look like their builtin time commands also resolve to seconds. Curiousy, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"