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thanks a lot radoulov.

Hi radoulov,

In my bash shell script, I am using the format posted by you i.e.:
_utime="$( TIMEFORMAT='%lU';time ( ls ) 2>&1 1>/dev/null )"

This displays the user time taken by the ls...

Thanks a lot radoulov & methyl for your replies.

The soloution posted by radoulov seems to be working as desired for my script and I'll continue with that.
Thanks again. :)

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Hi Tuxidow.

Thanks for the response.
I had tried the format that u posted but didn't work in case of time command. Command, the result of which I would like to save in a variable is : "time ls...

Hi all,

I am new to Linux/shell scripting having moderate knowledge.

In my script, I need to get execution time of a command (say 'ls') in mili seconds level. For this i tried using "time"...