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Re: Timing a process



Hello Sian,

Sian Mountbatten <poenikatu@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> AFAIK, there is a command which says how long a process takes to 
> complete. Its invoked with the command to be timed as an argument. Does 
> anybody know what it is?

time

for example

# time dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1

See also man time(1)

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