Time consumed

Mike Klinke lsomike at futzin.com
Mon Nov 22 15:58:00 UTC 2010


On Monday 22 November 2010 09:35, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
 
> I have ran the command by hand to scp a 200MB file from a remote
> server to a local server.
> is there a way to time it, I mean how much time it has consumed for
> the scp to complete the task.
> 
> How do i incorporate in bash shell script.


The bash shell has a built-in timer (time), for example:

# time sleep 10

real	0m10.029s
user	0m0.001s
sys	0m0.002s

Regards, Mike Klinke




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