If you do
 ps aux | grep -i <process name> | awk '{print $9}'   it should display the process running time. If you want to see all the details you can skip the last pipe awk.

On 7/22/2012 10:50 AM, AZ Pete wrote:
there a way to determine how a long a given process has


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omNovia Technologies Inc.
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