At 20:13 07/01/00 -0000, Kenn Humborg wrote:
>> Hello there,
>> I find myself in need of a program that will measure how long a program
>> takes to execute. It has to be quite accurate - 1/100s of a second at the
>> very least.
>>The time command:
>>[kenn at atlas download]$ time ls
>amavis-0.2.0-pre6 amavis-0.2.0-pre6.tar.gz
>linux-2.2.14.tar.bz2 qbus-ide sendmail-8.9.1-6.src.rpm
>0.00user 0.01system 0:00.01elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
>0inputs+0outputs (100major+13minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>[kenn at atlas download]$
On csh for the amiga there was a cool belll/whistle, you could set the
prompt (or window title) to include the time taken to execute the last
command. Does anyone know a way to do that in a linux shell?
Fergal
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