Re: bash scripting question

["Josep M." <websurfer@navegants.com>]

Hello.

I found these somewhere time ago. check if is what You need:





function timer()
{
    if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo $(date '+%s')
    else
    local  stime=$1
    etime=$(date '+%s')
                            
    if [[ -z "$stime" ]]; then stime=$etime; fi

    dt=$((etime - stime))
    ds=$((dt % 60))
    dm=$(((dt / 60) % 60))
    dh=$((dt / 3600))
    printf '%d:%02d:%02d' $dh $dm $ds
    fi
}

 
This is before the command

t=$(timer)

and this is after the command

printf 'Elapsed time: %s\n' $(timer $t)



example

t=$(timer)

copy /dev/null /dev/zero

printf 'Elapsed time: %s\n' $(timer $t)



Greetings
Josep

El vie, 19-03-2010 a las 10:19 -0700, Mike McClain escribió:
> I've written a function to print elapsed time similar to /usr/bin/time
> but can be called at the beginning and end of a script from within
> the script. Occasionally I get an error: '8-08: value too great for base'
> It's caused by the difference in these 2 command strings but I can't for 
> the life of me see what's going on.
> 
> now='09:07:16'; startHr=${now%%:*}; startHR=${startHr#*0}; echo $startHr; 
> 09
> 
> str=09; str=${str#*0}; echo $str; 
> 9
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
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