Timing the execution of a program

[Ezequiel]

I need a simple script to measure the time it took to execute a program.

What can I do?

I thought about a shell script that could log the start (current) time, execute the simulation and log the end (current) time.

I'm new to Linux, so if any of you can help me, THANKS.

Regards.
Eze.
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Ezequiel Glinsky
eze@bumeran.com
Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

[boebox]

There is a program called time that does this.

ex)

tleblanc@qatest06-67: time ls
a
b
0.000u 0.010s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 122pf+0w

This took 0.010seconds

-Tony

 

[asb555]

type the following on the command line:

time programName