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Asked: 2026-06-02T01:23:25+00:00

Sometimes, I use group grep to do an extensive search that might take a

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Sometimes, I use group grep to do an extensive search that might take a few minutes. Is there an option in grep that would allow me to find out how much time grep took to complete the query? Thanks.

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    Not built into grep, but you can wrap it with the time command on most Unix-ish systems.

    $ time grep 'test' *

... results ...
real    0m0.191s
user    0m0.002s
sys     0m0.009s

    The real time is probably the one you want to look at.

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