Notification of time a command took

Notification of time a command took

[Kai Grossjohann]

I think I remember having somebody seen with a tcsh which reported the
time a command took, if it took longer than N seconds.  This seems to
be a useful feature, and since zsh has the union of all features of
all shells, surely it is possible in zsh, too.  But how?

Kai

Re: Notification of time a command took

[Thomas Köhler]

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Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> I think I remember having somebody seen with a tcsh which reported the
> time a command took, if it took longer than N seconds.  This seems to
> be a useful feature, and since zsh has the union of all features of
> all shells, surely it is possible in zsh, too.  But how?

What about setting REPORTTIME to N? :-)

I use N=3:
~> grep REPORT .zshrc
export REPORTTIME=3

> Kai

Ciao,
Thomas

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Re: Notification of time a command took

[Wayne Davison]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 05:55:46PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> I think I remember having somebody seen with a tcsh which reported the
> time a command took, if it took longer than N seconds.

Searching through the zsh man page, I found that setting the environment
variable REPORTTIME=N will accomplish that (where N sets the minimum
total CPU time for the report to happen, not the minimum elapsed time).

..wayne..

Re: Notification of time a command took

[Andy Spiegl]

> This seems to be a useful feature, and since zsh has the union of all
> features of all shells, surely it is possible in zsh, too.
You're right.  :-)

man zshparam

...
       REPORTTIME
              If  nonnegative,  commands whose combined user and system execution
              times (measured in seconds) are greater than this value have timing
              statistics printed for them.
...

So:

condor:~>grep -i time .zshrc
# show process statistics if cpu time is > 5 seconds
export REPORTTIME=5

Chau,
 Andy.

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Re: Notification of time a command took

[Kai Grossjohann]

Thanks, folks, for pointing out $REPORTTIME, instead of saying RTFM...

Kai
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