I am new to perl and am trying to make a script which will get the starting time, and the ending time, and then tell me how long it took to run the whole thing, ending subtract beginning = how many hours, minutes and seconds...

I have figured out I could start it like this, 
my $beginning_time = time();
# Then run all my commands and stuff...

my $ending_time = time();

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So, if I did that, and then subtracted the ending from the begging, how would I turn that into x amount of hours, x amount of minutes, and x amount of seconds?

Please forgive my ignorance. I'm trying to learn, but I'm teaching myself. I've read a lot, but cannot figure this out. I'm very tired, I guess that could be causin it.

Anyways, thank you much for filling me in.

Xavier

In reply to Timing a process by ukndoit

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