Let me tell you, I spent a good chunk of my day getting this “time q” thing figured out. I thought it would be a breeze, but boy was I wrong.
I started by checking out the basic command, you know, just running time q in the terminal. That seemed simple enough. It showed me the real time, user time, and system time for the q command, which is basically nothing since q just exits the shell. I thought, “Okay, that’s the baseline.”
Then I tried to get fancy. I wanted to see how long it took for q to run a simple script. So, I made a script called . Inside, I just had it echo “Hello, world!” a bunch of times. Nothing crazy.
Next, I ran time q -c "./*". I figured this would give me some actual data to look at. And it did! The times were a bit longer, as you’d expect since it was actually doing something now.
But I wasn’t satisfied. I wanted to see how this changed with a more complex script. So, I whipped up another script, . This one had a loop that counted from 1 to 1000. Again, not rocket science, but more involved than just echoing a message.
- I ran
time q -c "./*". - The times were even longer this time!
- Real time, user time, system time, all went up.
I spent a while playing around with different variations. Trying different loop sizes, adding sleep commands, just to see what would happen. It was kinda fun, to be honest.
Finally, I decided to document all of this. I took screenshots of all the outputs, wrote down some notes about what each script did, and compiled it all into a neat little summary. So yeah, that’s how I spent my day – messing with time q and a few shell scripts.
It might seem like a waste of time to some, but I learned a lot about how q handles scripts and how the different types of time are calculated. Plus, it was a nice break from my usual work!
Hope this helps anyone curious to try time q!
