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.TH BENCHMARK-CMD 1
.SH NAME
benchmark-cmd \- benchmark shell commands
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B benchmark-cmd
benchmarks one or more Unix shell commands.
It runs some setup commands,
then the actual command,
and then some cleanup commands,
and can do this for several actual commands.
It then reports the timing results for each actual command.
.SH OPTIONS
.SH EXAMPLE
To see whether
.BR ls (1)
or
.BR find (1)
is faster:
.IP
.nf
$ benchmark-cmd --command='ls -lAR $HOME' \\
    --command='find $HOME -ls'
real  user  system  max RSS  elapsed  cmd                    
 (s)   (s)     (s)    (KiB)      (s)                         
 0.4   1.0     1.4     8608      1.4  ls -lAR $HOME
 0.4   0.4     0.8     8400      0.8  find  $HOME -ls