time take by a script - Shell Programming and Scripting

encrypted · #1 (**permalink**) 07-14-2004

Hi !

I have got a script which takes some time to execute.
Eg. if the script is called test.sh

#!/bin/bash
<command1 to execute>
<command2 to execute>
<command3 to execute>
<command4 to execute>
.
.
.
.
<command n to execute>

At the end of the script I want to show the users the actual time(user NOT CPU) taken for the script to execute. I know of the time
command but where shall I put in the code for calculating the time.

s93366 · #2 (**permalink**) 07-14-2004

Hi..

A solution would be to use test.sh to time another shell script with the acctual commands..
---
test.sh
#!/bin/sh
time /path/to/script/sh

---

/Peter

zazzybob · #3 (**permalink**) 07-14-2004

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

time ( command1 && \
           command2 && \
           command3 && \
           commandn )

exit 0

For some reason this won't work with bash nor sh. It works fine and dandy with ksh though.

Peter's solution above is guaranteed to work on all shells so is the solution I'd personally go for.

Ta,
ZB

encrypted · #4 (**permalink**) 07-14-2004

Thanks Peter!

I was expecting a similar solution.

Cheers

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