Measure script execution time

Question

In bash shell, is there a simple way for me to monitor the time taken to run a script and output the time taken?

Answer 1

Yes.

 time script

Where script is the script to monitor the time for.

For instance, time find ~ will output something like this (Depending on the size of your home directory, that is):

real    0m49.139s
user    0m0.663s
sys     0m4.129s