Fri, 06 Jul 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I need a simple program which counts the elapsed time starting from > a given point. Could you give some suggestions?
STARTTIME=$( date +%s ) <do something> ENDTIME=$(date +%s) ELAPSETIME=$((ENDTIME - STARTTIME)) Working out minutes and hours is left as exercise for the reader, as usual. Otherwise Python and Perl have easy to use modules to do these things. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel 2.6.18 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
