Re: bash command timer

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 05:19:47PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > > 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

I ran right into this when I did not specify /usr/bin/time.
However... I do not think time is what I want. What I want is a 
chronometer function that works just like one: you click and it shows 
0:00, click and it starts running, click and it shows how far it got...

I wrote a command to do that and keep the elapsed time in a environment 
variable, but "setenv("CHRONO", msecs.data(), 1));" does not set the 
variable "$CHRONO", so I have to rethink.

H