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Asked: 2026-05-31T06:03:22+00:00

Is there either a bash command or a Python library that will time the

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Is there either a bash command or a Python library that will time the amount of time to execute a file/command? I want to be able to decide what language will work best for a task or have a way of knowing for certain that Python code A runs faster than Python code B. If there is a way of doing this, but this question is off topic, please leave a comment with search terms or other resources.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, it’s called the time command. As in time command arg1 arg2 arg3.

    This outputs 3 fields, something like this:

    real    0m0.631s
user    0m0.154s
sys     0m0.458s

    The first is the actual wall-clock time. The second is how long the program spent in user space. The third is how long the program spent in kernel space.

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