Yet another basic command line tool that is awesome:
timeThis lets you do a quick and dirty profile on some code you’re executing.
Basic Usage
time <command>
This will execute the command and put out a summary detailing how long the command took in total, how long it was tied up in actual execution, and how long it was tied up in system overhead:
real 0m0.031s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.023s
Another nifty function that does one thing and one thing only, but does it well. Thanks Unix philosophy!