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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Start time/end time and status of crontab job Post 302117749 by sysgate on Wednesday 16th of May 2007 08:49:21 AM
Old 05-16-2007
Suggestion : put a modification of date command in the start of the script, then in the end of the script and have it append to a log file. Then you'll be able to see the difference. Or : let's say that the crontab will execute /home/user/script.sh --> put "/usr/bin/time -f "{#%e#}" -o timelog -a" in the front, this will write the time for execution of the script in file called "timelog". Then "cat timelog" and the time reported will look something like : {#0.16#}
The other way basically is using merely "time", e.g "time ls -la", which will report :
Quote:
real 0m0.119s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.011s
but I don't think you can use it within cronjob, as it's reporting only to STDOUT, I tried to redirect the output to file - no dice. So /usr/bin/time should do the trick. HTH.
 

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time(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							  time(1T)

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NAME
time - Time the execution of a script SYNOPSIS
time script ?count? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This command will call the Tcl interpreter count times to evaluate script (or once if count isn't specified). It will then return a string of the form 503 microseconds per iteration which indicates the average amount of time required per iteration, in microseconds. Time is measured in elapsed time, not CPU time. EXAMPLE
Estimate how long it takes for a simple Tcl for loop to count to a thousand: time { for {set i 0} {$i<1000} {incr i} { # empty body } } SEE ALSO
clock(1T) KEYWORDS
script, time ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl time(1T)
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