Tag Archives: bash

How to find out how long a process has been running (elapsed time)

Wed, May 27 2009
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Ever wondered how long a process has been running? Did you know how to find it? Well, it’s actually quite simple and can be done with the following command:
ps aux | grep amarokapp | grep -v grep | ps -o etime `awk ‘{ print $2 }’`
Above gives:
ps aux | grep amarokapp | grep -v grep | ps -o etime `awk ‘{ print $2 }’`
ELAPSED
25:22
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Command not found – openSUSE 11.1 preview

Thu, Oct 23 2008
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Have you ever tried running an application, only to get “command not found”. Well, that sucks and you’ve probably asked yourself “well, ummm, what package is this application part of?”.
Well wonder no more. As openSUSE 11.1 this feature has been implemented. I first saw the feature in openSUSE Beta 3. I must note, that I did an upgrade from 11.0 to Beta 2, then [ continue reading... ]

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