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Old 04-07-2005
The time taken to complete the task

Hi,
I am running rysnc in my script.
Like ,

rsync -az -e ssh --delete $HOSTTOBACKUP:$SOURCE $DR_BACKUP_DIR/daily.0 >$tempfile 2>&1


I want to find the time taken to complete the rysnc.,

And display the duration.(Hrs and sec).
How to do?
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Old 04-07-2005
Use the time(1) command.

On my system I can get the MM:SS like

time -f '%E' <your command here>
 
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