Short: Return precise execution time of shell commands Author: zodiac@darkness.gun.de (Ralph Seichter) Uploader: seichter informatik uni-bonn de Type: util/misc Architecture: m68k-amigaos After the LZX archiver by Data Compression Technologies was released, a friend of mine phoned me and asked if I know of a tool that can be used to measure the precise execution time of shell commands. As I didn't know of such a beast, I decided to write one myself, although I'm quite certain that there are numerous similar tools out there, somewhere. Anyway, here's what to do: instead of 1> foo opt1 opt2 opt3 simply type 1> TimeCmd foo opt1 opt2 opt3 You'll see the output of 'foo' in the shell window, followed by a line of text like "» 4.489200 seconds". Guess what that stands for. :) TimeCmd uses the timer.device for maximum accuracy, but as this is a multitasking OS, the results will probably vary. Run TimeCmd several times if you want to make sure that the measured time interval is as accurate as possible.