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` -- Jez http://www.munk.nu/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
