Revisions to Measure execution time of a command including expansion of command substitution

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edited May 23, 2017 at 12:40

The answer was simpler than I thought it would be. Credit to John B John B, one can use a sub-shell (...) for this:

➜ time (sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1)) ( sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1); ) 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.007 total

The answer was simpler than I thought it would be. Credit to John B, one can use a sub-shell (...) for this:

➜ time (sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1)) ( sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1); ) 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.007 total

The answer was simpler than I thought it would be. Credit to John B, one can use a sub-shell (...) for this:

➜ time (sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1)) ( sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1); ) 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.007 total

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edited Jul 1, 2016 at 17:34

The answer was simpler than I thought it would be. Credit to John B, one can use a sub-shell (...) for this:

✗➜ time (sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1)) ( sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1); ) 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.007 total

The answer was simpler than I thought it would be. Credit to John B, one can use a sub-shell (...) for this:

✗ time (sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1)) ( sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1); ) 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.007 total

The answer was simpler than I thought it would be. Credit to John B, one can use a sub-shell (...) for this:

➜ time (sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1)) ( sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1); ) 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.007 total

answered Jun 30, 2016 at 11:53

The answer was simpler than I thought it would be. Credit to John B, one can use a sub-shell (...) for this:

✗ time (sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1)) ( sleep $(sleep 3; echo 1); ) 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.007 total

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