Hi, I have various bash scripts for backing up to S3 storage, run via s3cmd and cron which kindly sends me a nice email with the output of either s3cmd or " echo 'some text' " lines in the script. One such script for user emails changes to bob's email folder, does the backup, changes to jane's email folder, backs up etc.
I'm interested in knowing how long each user's backing up takes by putting a time stamp in the script at the start (after changing to the user's folder, before the s3cmd runs) and end (after the s3cmd runs) via "date +%H:%M:%S". I can then make a comparison between the 2 myself to see elapsed time (or later extend the idea to get the difference between the 2). I could do this maybe: echo start time: date +%H:%M:%S and think this will work but it would be nice if I could get this on a single line, however I'm confused/lost about the finer (important) points of where quotes need to go and when they should be single or double. Could someone clarify for me please? Cheers, Roger _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
