you can run "time /backupscript" from cron to see elapsed time without manual comparison.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Roger Searle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
