一个可能简单的方法(可能不能满足不同用户的需求)是使用shell PROMPT。这是一个简单的解决方案，在某些情况下可能有用。你可以使用bash提示功能，如下例所示:

export PS1='[\t \u@\h]\$' 

上面的命令将导致shell提示符更改为:

[HH:MM:SS username@hostname]$ 

每次运行命令(或按回车键)返回到shell提示符时，提示符将显示当前时间。

notes: 1) beware that if you waited for sometime before you type your next command, then this time need to be considered, i.e the time displayed in the shell prompt is the timestamp when the shell prompt was displayed, not when you enter command. some users choose to hit Enter key to get a new prompt with a new timestamp before they are ready for the next command. 2) There are other available options and modifiers that can be used to change the bash prompt, refer to ( man bash ) for more details.

使用内置的time关键字:

$ help time

time: time [-p] PIPELINE
    Execute PIPELINE and print a summary of the real time, user CPU time,
    and system CPU time spent executing PIPELINE when it terminates.
    The return status is the return status of PIPELINE.  The `-p' option
    prints the timing summary in a slightly different format.  This uses
    the value of the TIMEFORMAT variable as the output format.

例子:

$ time sleep 2

real    0m2.009s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.004s

您可以获得比bash内置时间(即time(1)， Robert Gamble提到过)更详细的信息。通常这是/usr/bin/时间

编者按: 为了确保您调用的是外部实用程序time而不是shell的time关键字，请以/usr/bin/time来调用它 time是posix强制的实用程序，但它需要支持的唯一选项是-p。 特定的平台实现特定的、非标准的扩展:-v与GNU的time实用程序一起工作，如下所示(问题被标记为linux);BSD/macOS实现使用-l来产生类似的输出-参见man 1次。

详细输出示例:

$ /usr/bin/time -v sleep 1
       Command being timed: "sleep 1"
       User time (seconds): 0.00
       System time (seconds): 0.00
       Percent of CPU this job got: 1%
       Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:01.05
       Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
       Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
       Average stack size (kbytes): 0
       Average total size (kbytes): 0
       Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0
       Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
       Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
       Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 210
       Voluntary context switches: 2
       Involuntary context switches: 1
       Swaps: 0
       File system inputs: 0
       File system outputs: 0
       Socket messages sent: 0
       Socket messages received: 0
       Signals delivered: 0
       Page size (bytes): 4096
       Exit status: 0

#!/bin/bash
START=$(date +%s)
# do something
# start your script work here
ls -R /etc > /tmp/x
rm -f /tmp/x
# your logic ends here
END=$(date +%s)
DIFF=$(( $END - $START ))
echo "It took $DIFF seconds"

一个可能简单的方法(可能不能满足不同用户的需求)是使用shell PROMPT。这是一个简单的解决方案，在某些情况下可能有用。你可以使用bash提示功能，如下例所示:

export PS1='[\t \u@\h]\$' 

上面的命令将导致shell提示符更改为:

[HH:MM:SS username@hostname]$ 

每次运行命令(或按回车键)返回到shell提示符时，提示符将显示当前时间。

notes: 1) beware that if you waited for sometime before you type your next command, then this time need to be considered, i.e the time displayed in the shell prompt is the timestamp when the shell prompt was displayed, not when you enter command. some users choose to hit Enter key to get a new prompt with a new timestamp before they are ready for the next command. 2) There are other available options and modifiers that can be used to change the bash prompt, refer to ( man bash ) for more details.

如果您想要更精确，请使用%N和date(并使用bc作为diff，因为$(())只处理整数)。

以下是如何做到这一点:

start=$(date +%s.%N)
# do some stuff here
dur=$(echo "$(date +%s.%N) - $start" | bc)

printf "Execution time: %.6f seconds" $dur

例子:

start=$(date +%s.%N); \
  sleep 0.1s; \
  dur=$(echo "$(date +%s.%N) - $start" | bc); \
  printf "Execution time: %.6f seconds\n" $dur

结果:

Execution time: 0.104623 seconds