timeit

The timeit utility measures the time of command execution.

It has some features inspired by the FreeBSD /usr/bin/time:

1. Human friendly output (for example: 1h32m43s instead of 5563.00)

Examples

Time a command, with or without options:

$ timeit sleep 61
timeit results:
real: 1m1.008s

Time a shell construct: you have to time the execution of a subshell, for example:

$ timeit fish -c 'for i in (seq 3); sleep 1; echo $i; end'
1
2
3
timeit results:
real: 3.035s

Time a command and print intermediate timings:

$ timeit -ticker 30s sleep 60
timeit ticker: running since 30.001s
timeit ticker: running since 1m0.004s
timeit results:
real: 1m0.005s

Check online if there is a more recent version:

$ timeit -check-version
installed version v0.2.1 is older than the latest version v0.3.0
To upgrade visit https://github.com/marco-m/timeit

Status

Pre 1.0.0. Working and tested, backwards incompatible changes possible.

Supported platforms

Unix-like and macOS.

Install from binary package

1. Download the archive for your platform from the releases page.
2. Unarchive and copy the timeit executable somewhere in your $PATH. I like to use $HOME/bin/.

Install for macOS

You have to cope with the macOS gatekeeper, that will put the executable in quarantine, since it is not signed nor notarized. There are two options:

1. Download the archive with a command-line tool, like curl or wget.
2. Download the archive with a web browser, unarchive and run

   $ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine timeit
   

Install from source

1. Install task.
2. $ task

Then, copy the executable to a directory in your $PATH.

Making a release

$ env RELEASE_TAG=v0.1.0 summon task release

License

This code is released under the MIT license, see file LICENSE.

Credits

• FreeBSD /usr/bin/time (man page, C source).