Outputting Data To DOS

[calabrra]

I would like to compute elapsed time (hh:mm:ss) in my AWK routine and display it on the DOS console window.

Is there a simple way to do this?


Thanks,
-Bob

 

[CaKiwi]

Here's something that may get you started. I assume you are running awk under windows since you mention a DOS window, and this solution relies on the unix date command. You can get it by installing cygwin. I renamed it udate because it is later in my path than the dos date function.

BEGIN{
dat = "udate +%T"
dat | getline
close(dat)
split($0,a,":&quot
secs = a[1]*3600 + a[2]*60 + a[3]
# print a[1],a[2],a[3],secs
}
{
# <your program>
}
END {
dat | getline
close(dat)
split($0,a,&quot;:&quot
# print a[1],a[2],a[3]
print &quot;Elapsed time = &quot; a[1]*3600 + a[2]*60 + a[3] - secs
}

CaKiwi

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[Salem]

Well if your AWK is the GNU AWK, then this is quite easy

#!/bin/gawk -f
BEGIN {
    start = systime()
}
END {
    end = systime()
    print "Elapsed=",end-start
}

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[calabrra]

I'm running Win2K Pro on a laptop. I'll give CaKiwi's suggestion a try.

Thanks,
-Bob