Re: [CentOS] Timing a command

On Jan 25, 2008 7:05 PM, Scott Ehrlich scott@mit.edu wrote:

I want to keep track of how long a task is running. Thinking it wouldn't take that long, I opted not to run time before it. The fact that it is taking a long time, if I revisit the machine in the morning, what would be the best way to find out what time it ended?

In this case, I'm using mt to erase an lto3 tape - sudo mt -f /dev/st0 erase. But I'd like to use the knowledge from this question to track other events, too.

I feel like I should know this answer, but cannot think of the solution at the moment.

Thanks.

Scott

just add 'time' before your command. like this:

time sudo mt -f /dev/st0 erase