10.9 Time and Date

10.9.1 Time Measurement with time

Determine the time spent by commands with the time utility. This utility is available in two versions: as a shell built-in and as a program (/usr/bin/time).

tux@mercury:~> time find . > /dev/null

real    0m4.051s
user    0m0.042s
sys     0m0.205s