On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 17:46, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 16:38 21 Aug 2003, Peram's List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I appreciate your quick response. > | Is there any way I get the time taken for the execution of a script from > | the script itself instead of typing it at the command line. > > Well, if you're still inside the script then the won't be "the time the > script took to execute", because the script's still running. > > But you can do things like: > > start=`perl -e 'print time'` > .... body of script here ... > end=`perl -e 'print time'` > echo "took `expr $end - $start` seconds" >
Hmmm. wouldn't start=$(date +%s) be a bit more efficient? [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]$ time perl -e'print time' 1061507775 real 0m0.008s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.004s [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]$ time date +%s 1061507784 real 0m0.006s user 0m0.002s sys 0m0.004s [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]$ Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
