On 12/30/05 11:54 AM, "vodhner@cox.net" <vodhner@cox.net> wrote:
> I just yesterday discovered the $SECONDS variable in ksh and bash.  It lets
> you measure elapsed time in a shell script without spawning separate processes
> -- very nice.

Thanks for the tip!  Very slick.

kevin@hangar ~ $ echo $SECONDS; sleep 5; echo $SECONDS
138
143
 

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