Today's article tells ya how to time a command.

[KGIII]

It's straightforward and easy, along with some examples.

Time A Command To See How Long It Takes To Run • Linux Tips

Have you ever wanted to time a command? Well, you can! Linux includes the ability to time a command, so that you can know how long it took.

linux-tips.us

It was on the old site, but less dense and with different formatting.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Bit of a Freaky Friday for me yesterday.

I was running a job with a recalcitrant Fedora that took forever, and I thought "Should have run time on this".

Then you produce the above.

Do you think I was transmitting my thoughts, or I was receiving yours?

Whacked The Mole for 5 anyway

Avagudweegend

Chris

 

[KGIII]

Do you think I was transmitting my thoughts, or I was receiving yours?

I wrote the article on the 31st of October, so probably nothing of the sort.

I write 'em ahead of time and schedule them. That's my 'secret' so that I am able to have an article every other day.

LOL Thanks for whacking that mole!

 

[Fanboi]

I write 'em ahead of time and schedule them.

echo "wp-publish $HOME/docs/time-command.html" | at 2021-11-05

...Unless it's a full on crontab setup...

*I have no idea what the Wordpress API is like nor the CLI commands. Likely not "wp-publish <path/to/doc" but still, lol.

 

[KGIII]

*I have no idea what the Wordpress API is like nor the CLI commands. Likely not "wp-publish <path/to/doc" but still, lol.

It uses it's own 'cron'. Which, of course, uses regular cron.

Cron – Plugin Handbook | Developer.WordPress.org

What is WP-Cron WP-Cron is how WordPress handles scheduling time-based tasks in WordPress. Several WordPress core features, such as checking…

developer.wordpress.org

 

[Fanboi]

It uses it's own 'cron'. Which, of course, uses regular cron.

Cron – Plugin Handbook | Developer.WordPress.org

What is WP-Cron WP-Cron is how WordPress handles scheduling time-based tasks in WordPress. Several WordPress core features, such as checking…

developer.wordpress.org

That,,, is awesome!

 

[KGIII]

That,,, is awesome!

If you know the command(s) executed, you can disable certain WP features and schedule them with regular cron. You can even do so right from cPanel. (Most folks aren't all that fluent in cPanel, so I figured I'd share.)