Time elapsed since script started


 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Time elapsed since script started
# 1  
Old 01-12-2011
Time elapsed since script started

Hi
I want to know if there is anyway I can find out how long it has been since I started my script or total time it has been since my script is executing.

Idea here is I want to check if my script is taking more than 30minutes to execute I want to kill that process.

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 01-12-2011
In ksh/bash/zsh you can do that using an asynchronous background process:
Code:
( sleep 1800 && kill -TERM $$ ) &
# Rest of your script here

Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Calculatin cumulative elapsed time from mm:ss.ss data

Hello all, I got some time duration data like below and I want to compute the cumulative elapsed time. The data is in MM:SS.SS format. I got struck with logic on what to do when it changes from 59:59.ss to 00:00.ss. 59:59.4 59:59.6 59:59.9 00:00.1 00:00.4 00:00.6 00:00.9 I need the... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: ks_reddy
5 Replies

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Help in : sorting process by their elapsed time: HP-UX

What is the equivalent command of the below linux command would be in hp-ux UNIX95=1 ps -eo pid,start,stime,command Thanks a lot, (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rveri
1 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

elapsed time

Display the elapsed time $ export data_ini = `date +'%s'`; echo $data_ini 1292417961 $ export data_final = `date +'%s'`; echo $data_final 1292418079 $ ((temps = data_final - data_ini)); echo $temps 118 $ echo $((data_final - data_ini)) #total seconds 118 $ echo $(((data_final... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: aika
1 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Elapsed time in seconds in awk

I am trying to get the ellapsed time in seconds in the body of the awk script. I use unix date to get the time. It works in BEGIN {} but not in the body {} of awk. Any ideas? $ cat a BEGIN { "date +%s" | getline x print x } { "date +%s" | getline y print y } $ echo "one line" |... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: arturas123
3 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help on Time elapsed?

Hi All, I have 2 variables like SDATE and EDATE. Now for example i ll give you values for the above 2 variables. SDATE=11/08/09 11:22 EDATE=11/09/09 22:33 the values of the above variables are represented like this>>>>>> mm/dd/yy hh:mm Now I want to evaluate total time elapsed... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: smarty86
3 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need to calculate elapsed time

Hi there, How to calculate the elapsed time in minutes for a particular job run under unix. I tried the following $ ps -efo user,pid,etime,comm,args | grep myscript | grep -v grep | awk -F" " '{print $3}' OUTPUT: 01:02:49 I need to get this output in minutes. Can someone help me... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: karthickrn
1 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Different time format in script, started in shell or in cron

I try to write a python script, which analyze user logon time with "who" command. When i start script in bash, i get this result: USER=mnadmin tty7 2009-04-18 11:37 (:0) But when i start script in cron, i get result like this: USER=mnadmin tty7 Apr 18 11:37 (:0) I see -... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jrush
2 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Calculate Elapsed Time

I'm looking for the cleanest way to calculate the time elapsed between two times in KSH. In minutes or in hours and minutes if it has been longer than 59 minutes. Here are some random examples: Example result: 25 Minutes or Example result: 1 Hour and 25 Minutes Example time format: ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sysera
5 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Adding Elapsed time

I'm using the Bourne shell and trying to write a script that will add all the time that any particular user has been on the network for. I've used last-h | grep "username" | cut -c 58-62 to get the times. Then I wrote a script that takes the time and converts it into just minutes. Now I... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jrdnoland1
1 Replies

10. Programming

Displaying elapsed time...

I am trying to display the amount of time that it took for a command to run. I'm assuming that i have the correct code: ... else { printf("I am a child process and my pid is %d\n", getpid()); cout<<"Parameters are: "<<endl; for... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jj1814
5 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question