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Mac, as does Linux, offers a quick and dirty way to "time" the execution of a command on the command line (CLI).
I needed this to time the speed of certain compression programs like Zip, 7Zip, and WinRAR.
Basic format:
time <your commands>
and produces what your "commands" normally would produce, followed by something like:
real 0m0.014s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.004s
The first line (real) is the time elapsed while executing your commands.
Example:
time ls -l
Which lists the file in long format of your current directory.
