Craig Thomas wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know of a simple way to determine how long any given command
takes to run when issued from the command line? I've googled and turned
up lots of timing a process type results...but I've had no luck
recognizing a solution [poor google searches -- not sure what I'm
searching for really]. I'm creating some cron jobs for backups and just
want to schedule them far enough apart I'm not writing old data.
there's surely something like this that will do what I need:
#tar -czf ~/.evolution email.tar.gz | someapptotimemyprocess
Any help greatly appreciated.
TIA,
You can prefix your command with the command "time":
time "tar -czf ~/.evolution email.tar.gz"
Thanks
-dant
