Need to check timing statistics

Greetings,
                I want to run a command and after its execution needs
to know its timing statistics like elapsed time etc.

Can anyone help me on this?

TIA

The command you want is `time`

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thanks for the reply matt.
I looked into it. Can you tell me how to implement it properly and what
are the statistics that actually it gives?

In a console window run the command 

man time

That should give you an idea how to run it. 

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   That will depend on whether you use a shell's built-in command or
   an external utility.

   At a shell prompt, type "type time" (without the quotation marks).
   If it tells you that it is a shell keyword or builtin, use "help
   time" or "time --help", depending on which shell you use. If it is
   an external command, such as /usr/bin/time, type "man time".


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thanks matt. I got what i wanted. thanks again

Hi,

 I implemented the same.

But, I used the external /usr/bin/time for this to find the elapsed
time manually. (GNU time utility is not available on my machine and i
shouldn't use too) (time -d option is not available on machines time
utility)

I execute the above said two commands and I didn't get any thing from
the below output's.

# time --help
ksh: --help:  not found.

real    0m0.06s
user    0m0.00s
sys     0m0.00s
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# help time

If available, you can refer to the Base Document Library
for general assistance.

Some basic Commands are:

    man -k keyword      - lists commands relevant to a keyword
    man command         - prints out the manual pages for a command
    cat                 - concatenates files (and just prints them out)
    vi                  - text editor
    ls                  - lists contents of directory
    mail                - sends and receives mail
    passwd              - changes login password
    sccshelp            - views information on the Source Code Control
System
    smit                - system management interface tool
    tset                - sets terminal modes
    who                 - who is on the system
    write               - writes to another user

To find programs about mail, use the command:           man -k mail
and print out the man command documentation via:        man mail
You can log out of the system by typing:                exit
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How can utilise the shell's built-in command  to get the start time,
end time and elapsed time?

Thanks,
an

On 29 Mar 2006 07:54:37 -0800, anju 


date; time yourcommand; date


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*SIGH*   =reading= counts.   the prior note (that you _didn't_ quote any of)
said to try 'man time'.  *not* 'help time'.

Just like the 2nd 'hint' in the "basic commands" description that you did
quote.

Repeating: 'reading counts'.   Even on AIX.