Print execution time of a shell command
time is a built-in command in most shells that writes execution time information to the tty. You could also try something like start_time=`date +%s` <command-to-execute> end_time=`date +%s` echo execution time was `expr $end_time – $start_time` s. Or in bash: start_time=`date +%s` <command-to-execute> && echo run time is $(expr `date +%s` – $start_time) s