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REPORTTIME for Bash

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Mar 15, 2026902 views
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Problem

Zsh has an ingenious feature that automatically prints timing statistics for commands taking longer than to execute. Think of it as automatically executing a pipeline through as needed. From the Zsh Manual: Does there exist a similar feature, or set of scripts that enables similar behaviour, for Ba…

Error Output

REPORTTIME
    If nonzero, commands whose combined user and system execution times
    (measured in seconds) are greater than this value have timing …

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Fix for: REPORTTIME for Bash

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I have an implementation of it, here: https://github.com/mstormo/reporttime Clone the Git repo, and simply source the reporttime.bash script. Also allows you to put the timing components into your Bash prompt directly, instead of having it reported …

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