Process time

processtime is an executable that allows you to run a process and display its execution time.

Install

Using Cargo

You can run cargo install processtime if you have Rust and Cargo on your machine.

Building from source

Run these commands: git clone https://github.com/Orbitale/processtime cd processtime cargo build --release

This will create a target/release/processtime executable (or processtime.exe on Windows) that you can take and move anywhere you want.

Usage

You can run processtime followed by any command, like this for instance:

``` $ processtime cargo build Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.01s

6s 460ms 994us 400ns ```

The last line will always display the time it took to run your command.

Change the output format

By default, processtime displays a human-readable version of the execution time.

However, you might want to gather the information from a script or something and use it in other tools.

For that, you can use the --format option, which can take the following values:

• full: Human-readable (default format)
• s: Seconds (will output 0 for scripts that take less than 1 second to run)
• ms: Milliseconds
• us or µs: Microseconds
• ns: Nanoseconds

Note: If you use this option, you should use the -- separator to make sure processtime interprets your command properly, like this for example:

$ processtime --format=ms -- find . -iname "*.json"

This way, processtime interprets everything at the right of the -- characters to be your command to execute.