On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:51:29PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: > I guess I could do that, it's just that I use certain commands almost > "instinctively" and sometimes I forget. A lot of times I'm running > certain processes one after the other in several shells. It is after > I've run them that I realize that it would have been nice to "time" some > of them. > > I suppose I could just be more attentive as to which commands I'd like > to "time". I'll keep what you say in mind. :-) > If it is always the same commands, then consider setting them to use the time command as an alias. For example, if you always want to know how long a dd took, then use something like `alias dd='/usr/bin/time /usr/bin/dd'`. Of course, you will need to use dd and not /usr/bin/dd to get the benefit. Additionally, if you set your alias like this: `alias dd='/usr/bin/time dd'`, then it will recurse and bad things will happen. Trust me on this :-) I once did `alias mutt='LANG= mutt'` and when I executed it, I had to reboot the machine to get it to quit. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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