On 27 October 2010 06:44, Tha.Suresh <[email protected]> wrote: > $ time read -sn1 (s:silent, n:number of characters. Press any character to > stop) > > Ex: > > th...@thasu-desktop ~/Desktop $ time read -sn1 (Press any char to stop) > > real 0m1.968s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.000s >
Very interesting. Note to self read man pages again and again. Now if only I could attach this to an external trigger (usb??) this can become even more useful. Typical scenario would be trigger start and stop to time some experiment. Hmmmm application engineers?? -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there. PS: Replying using bottom post/in-line post makes email conversations whole lot easier for meaningful dialogue. Snip out what is not relevant. Adopt this and spread the message. -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
