On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:54:59PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> This is the Command I used: 
> date > date.txt && tar xvfz pkgsrc.tar.gz && date >> date.txt 

You better use time(1) for this, it will give you much more information
than just end-time minus begin-time: 

time tar xf pkgsrc.tar

And, you should not use the tar -v (verbose) flag, as terminal scrolling
may be slower than the actual untarring!  

GH

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:wq