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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:32:51 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: time usage question
Message-ID:  <20020206213251.GJ1066@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0202061616300.9461-100000@opal>
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0202061616300.9461-100000@opal>

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In the last episode (Feb 06), Zhihui Zhang said:
> 
> I often use something like:
> 
> $ time command
> 
> Now the command is a complex one, like "ls | xargs rm".  Can I still use
> the same format.  For example,
> 
> $ time ls | xargs rm

Depends on your shell.  zsh will time each command in the pipeline
separately:

zsh> time ls | wc -l | wc -l
       1
ls  0.00s user 0.04s system 54% cpu 0.071 total
wc -l  0.00s user 0.02s system 26% cpu 0.059 total
wc -l  0.00s user 0.01s system 14% cpu 0.053 total

Most other shells will time only the first command.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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