Shell Programming and Scripting

create one file and give execute permission to the file

write the below line the file

Code:

time your-original-script-name

execute the file, you will get the time for execution

Ok, here you go....
Once again
i needed the total time taken by my script called abc.ksh...like 20 mins or 30 mins or anything to be displayed on scrren as soon as abc.ksh is finished.

What i did as per your suggestion, i created a new script something called fff.ksh and inserted a line in it as below:

Code:

time abc.ksh

gave a proper permission..

Next what i did is, inside my original script at the end of abc.ksh, i wrote
/mypath/fff.ksh
below is the output when abc.ksh finished...It didnt gave me any time...

Code:

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

I gave you two solutions in the previous posts. What exactly is not working there?

Why?

time(1) gives you elapsed time of command specified as its argument. so it gave you the time it took to execute fff.ksh. But you wanted the time it took to run abc.ksh. So do

Code:

time abc.ksh

instead of

Code:

./abc.ksh

, when you are invoking the script.

OK here you go....
My name of the script is abc.ksh which is approximately taking 8 to 9 mins to execute but iam not sure how exact it is ...so i needed help so posted here...
my abc.ksh script is as below...

Code:

#! /bin/ksh
pun=/usr/mi/tics/Par
/$pun/ihy_ed.ksh
ret=$?
if [ $ret -ne 0 ]
then
        echo
        echo " =====> ERROR OCCURRED WHILE RUNNING ihy_ed.ksh <===== "
        echo " =====> ERROR CODE RETURNED BY ihy_ed.ksh=$ret <===== "
exit $ret
else
        echo " ====> THE SCRIPT COMPLETED WITHOUT ANY ERRORS ====> "
        echo
fi

The above code for the script name abc.ksh works absolutely fine and its taking 8 to 9 mins but dont know the exact time...
I execute it the the below way...

Code:

./abc.ksh

now @mirni-- as you said just put the time before the abc.ksh and i did that after the abc.ksh is completely executed.
And below is the out put on the screen after i wrote
-----time abc.ksh

Code:

-bash: abc.ksh: command not found
real    0m0.001s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

its not displaying above like 8 or 9 mins as such..

---------- Post updated at 12:27 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:24 PM ----------

What exactly should i do in my script (abc.ksh) so that it will show me in the end saying that the script took 8 or 9 or any mins or hours to execute..

you are executing wrong , i mean without the relative path.

Code:

time ./abc.ksh

This will work

ok thanks @Kumaran..i will surely try it....
one more thing where should i incorporate the above line ..
do u mean i should put it in the end of my script (abc.ksh)...so that as soon as abc.ksh is finished it will give me the total time it completed...

No. You have to execute your script using that line.

usually you execute your command with

Code:

prompt> ./abc.ksh

But now

Code:

prompt> time ./abc.ksh