Re: How do get elapsed time in milliseconds in a shell script?

Reply: Frank Leonhardt : "Re: How do get elapsed time in milliseconds in a shell script?"
In reply to: Frank Leonhardt : "How do get elapsed time in milliseconds in a shell script?"
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From: Tom Browder <tom.browder_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:45:22 UTC

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 03:09 Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> wrote:

> I thought this would be easy, but it's not!
>
> I can get the time since the epoch to the nearest second (date +%s), but
> nothing more accurate. This was probably good enough in the 1970s but I
> think it's reasonable to want a better resolution even in a shell script.


I’m a wannabe FreeBSD user lurking here. Can you tell us more about your
use case?

(Spoiler alert:  I’m a long time Unix/Linux user who now relies mostly on
Raku for other than very simple bash scripts.)

Best regards,

-Tom