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??

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