Use the date Command to Measure Elapsed Time

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Wed, 11/26/2008 - 08:58

When running bash scripts that take a long time to run it's often useful to know how long it took for the script to run.

In addition to the overall run time, it's also often useful to know how long certain parts of the script took to run.

The time command doesn't really help because it's meant to time a single command, not a sequence of commands.

By using the %s format

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