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I searched high and low for a stopwatch that I could run on my laptop. Computers aren't the most accurate time pieces, it's true, but I didn't care. My task wasn't going to require any sort of accuracy.
Well, I couldn't find one. In fact the closest thing I found was the project management tool gnotime. This wasn't quite what I was looking for.
So, I wrote my own. The resolution is only in seconds and it's not very pretty. It suited my purpose though:
#!/bin/bash
BEGIN=$(date +%s)
while true; do
NOW=$(date +%s)
let DIFF=$(($NOW - $BEGIN))
let MINS=$(($DIFF / 60))
let SECS=$(($DIFF % 60))
echo Time elapsed: $MINS:`printf %02d $SECS`
done
Cute idea.
I made two potentially useful changes, one functional, one aesthetic:
Functional - insert: usleep 10000 ...at the top of the loop to reduces update frequency from *very* fast to once every 100th of a second (massive reduction in CPU/power use)
Aesthetic - replace the echo command with: printf "\rTime elapsed: %d:%02d" $MINS $SECS ...to avoid scrolling.
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Posted by Guest User on 2007-12-31 08:36:22.