On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 05:19:47PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On 09/25/06 13:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I am looking for a way to time scripts, how long they take to execute. > >> > >>That has appeared in the list before, but now I can't find it. > >> > >>I could write it myself, but I bet it exists already. > > > >Are you referring to time(1)? > > > > $ time ./testmem > > Out of memory at 2802 M > > > > real 0m0.020s > > user 0m0.002s > > sys 0m0.017s > > > > Aha! I am and it is a package that I did not have installed ;-) > Just remember that if you run time without a patch qualification, you get the shell's builtin time function. If you want to use the time binary, then be sure to specify /usr/bin/time. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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