Time all executions in bash

Question

Is there a way to run all commands in bash as if they were invoked with time in front? I want that I could type $ some_command and this will actually invoke $ time some_command.

Not very well http://superuser.com/questions/175799/does-bash-have-a-hook-that-is-run-before-executing-a-command. Perhaps zsh… — msw, Sep 23 '13 at 12:04
zsh with the grml zsh config does this by default. It shows the time only if it exceeds a certain value. — jofel, Sep 23 '13 at 12:13
@jofel. Actually, with zsh, it's just a matter of REPORTTIME=0 (report time of those processes that take more than 0 seconds). — Stéphane Chazelas, Sep 23 '13 at 12:32
I am looking for an answer using bash. I don't think I'll change my shell just because of this feature. — Dror, Sep 23 '13 at 19:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 23 '13 at 12:10

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Itself time command do it :

time ls
time gimp

But if you want to invoke time for each command, you can customize a script for yourself, you should run everything with it but it's not good way.

answered Sep 23 '13 at 12:10

PersianGulf

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My question is exactly how this script should look like... It would be really nice to be able to turn on and off this script. – Dror Sep 23 '13 at 15:53
I think Stephane Chazelas answer better than me... – PersianGulf Sep 23 '13 at 19:10

Time all executions in bash

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