[Matthew_S]

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to Linux and Bash so if I appear slow that's the reason

I'm trying to write a function in Bash that will give me the time it takes to do an operation and then report to a logfile if it passes or fails. What I have so far is;

functionName()
{
echo Timing the operation. >> $LOG
date
$OPERATION
date
}

but this means I will manually have to calculate the difference between the two dates. Can i have something like;

if
difference between dates <5seconds
echo fail
fi

??

Thanks in advance,

Matthew.

[linuxphile]

#!/bin/bash
start=$(date +%s)
end=$(date +%s)
DIFF=$(( $end - $start))
echo “It took $DIFF seconds”

[lotuseclat79]

Look into the "time" command to distinguish the difference between real, user and system time for any operation.

The date command only gives you the wall time of the operation and does not distinguish the details like the "time" command.

-- Tom