我需要一个时差脚本用于mencoder(它的——endpos是相对的)，我的解决方案是调用一个Python脚本:

$ ./timediff.py 1:10:15 2:12:44
1:02:29

还支持秒的分数:

$ echo "diff is `./timediff.py 10:51.6 12:44` (in hh:mm:ss format)"
diff is 0:01:52.4 (in hh:mm:ss format)

它可以告诉你200和120的差值是1h 20m:

$ ./timediff.py 120:0 200:0
1:20:0

并且可以将任何(可能是分数)秒、分或小时数转换为hh:mm:ss

$ ./timediff.py 0 3600
1:00:0
$ ./timediff.py 0 3.25:0:0
3:15:0

timediff.py:

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys

def x60(h,m):
    return 60*float(h)+float(m)

def seconds(time):
    try:
       h,m,s = time.split(':')
       return x60(x60(h,m),s)
    except ValueError:
       try:
          m,s = time.split(':')
          return x60(m,s)
       except ValueError:
          return float(time)

def difftime(start, end):
    d = seconds(end) - seconds(start)
    print '%d:%02d:%s' % (d/3600,d/60%60,('%02f' % (d%60)).rstrip('0').rstrip('.'))

if __name__ == "__main__":
   difftime(sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2])

% start=$(date +%s)
% echo "Diff: $(date -d @$(($(date +%s)-$start)) +"%M minutes %S seconds")"
Diff: 00 minutes 11 seconds

#!/bin/bash

START_TIME=$(date +%s)

sleep 4

echo "Total time elapsed: $(date -ud "@$(($(date +%s) - $START_TIME))" +%T) (HH:MM:SS)"

$ ./total_time_elapsed.sh 
Total time elapsed: 00:00:04 (HH:MM:SS)

定义这个函数(在~/.bashrc中):

time::clock() {
    [ -z "$ts" ]&&{ ts=`date +%s%N`;return;}||te=`date +%s%N`
    printf "%6.4f" $(echo $((te-ts))/1000000000 | bc -l)
    unset ts te
}

现在你可以测量部分脚本的时间了:

$ cat script.sh
# ... code ...
time::clock
sleep 0.5
echo "Total time: ${time::clock}"
# ... more code ...

$ ./script.sh
Total time: 0.5060

对于发现执行瓶颈非常有用。

我需要一个时差脚本用于mencoder(它的——endpos是相对的)，我的解决方案是调用一个Python脚本:

$ ./timediff.py 1:10:15 2:12:44
1:02:29

还支持秒的分数:

$ echo "diff is `./timediff.py 10:51.6 12:44` (in hh:mm:ss format)"
diff is 0:01:52.4 (in hh:mm:ss format)

它可以告诉你200和120的差值是1h 20m:

$ ./timediff.py 120:0 200:0
1:20:0

并且可以将任何(可能是分数)秒、分或小时数转换为hh:mm:ss

$ ./timediff.py 0 3600
1:00:0
$ ./timediff.py 0 3.25:0:0
3:15:0

timediff.py:

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys

def x60(h,m):
    return 60*float(h)+float(m)

def seconds(time):
    try:
       h,m,s = time.split(':')
       return x60(x60(h,m),s)
    except ValueError:
       try:
          m,s = time.split(':')
          return x60(m,s)
       except ValueError:
          return float(time)

def difftime(start, end):
    d = seconds(end) - seconds(start)
    print '%d:%02d:%s' % (d/3600,d/60%60,('%02f' % (d%60)).rstrip('0').rstrip('.'))

if __name__ == "__main__":
   difftime(sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2])

使用GNU日期(可靠的Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)概括@nisetama的解决方案:

start=`date`
# <processing code>
stop=`date`
duration=`date -ud@$(($(date -ud"$stop" +%s)-$(date -ud"$start" +%s))) +%T`

echo $start
echo $stop
echo $duration

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