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I'm trying to measure the execution time of a process that I call via the command line (i.e., I want to find out how long it takes to for the process to finish). Is there any command that I can add to the command calling the process that will achieve this?

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You can use time:

time ls -R
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Add time before the command you want to measure.

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Thank you, that helped a lot! – user848635 Jul 17 '11 at 12:34
@ninjalj, can you provide more information on what the real, user, and sys times are that this command returns? – WarriorIng64 Jul 17 '11 at 20:22

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