UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I know there are some posts on getting the time with milliseconds included and I realize unix may not be the best on this.

I have seem some posts where its advised to install the GNU date.
Any one know where I can download this as I am struggling to find it.

Alternatively - if you have anther utility that can do this on unix - let me know... I dont know C code so would prefer to stay away from that if possible

what is your OS ?
On solaris I have it with miliseconds included :

Code:

[root@t1000-1 /]# time

real    0m0.000s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

I think he means date, not the time command.


Got perl?

Code:

perldoc -f time

time::HiRes supports milliseconds (get it from CPAN) and you can use the syscall interface to call gettimeofday.

I am running Solaris 9 x86

bash-2.05$ uname -a
SunOS xxxxxxx 5.9 Generic_118559-09 i86pc i386 i86pc
bash-2.05$ time
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `time'


I have perl installed - can I call the time module from command line to get current time with milliseconds?

ie... can I type 'perl -f time' or something like this to get current time?

This thread shows how to do it in C (in case you decide that C is ok after all)

I had this issue few days ago, and I thought that the man pages are erroneous...
the "time" that you are trying to invoke is bash built-in command, but different from /usr/bin/time.
Please do "which time" and call the absolute path, I hope this helps.