Re: Timing a process

["der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com>]

Am 07. Mar, 2012 schwätzte Sian Mountbatten so:

moin moin Sian,

> 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?

Do you mean time?

$ time sleep 10

real    0m10.001s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

ciao,

der.hans
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