On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Volker Kuhlmann <[email protected]> wrote: > date "+Start time: %H:%M:%S"
Nice point. I was used to constructing things with different separators between numbers, but hadn't generalised that into realising it was a generic printf-like thing :-) > In bash, if you want to know the wallclock time for some sommands, do > this: > starttime=$SECONDS Ooh, shiny. That's 'better' then `date +%s`, if all you're using it for is elapsed time calculations. Thanks Volker. -jim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
