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Comment by kemist | Hacker News Reader

My personal favorite zsh specific feature is the REPORTTIME environment variable. When set to a nonzero number it'll automatically print a summary after a long running command.

My own http://imgur.com/6LCS1cj

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This is super cool... been using zsh for a while and wasn't aware!

Hmm doesn't work for me, is it an option you need to turn on?

It's a normal variable, not one set by `setopt`. The following should make commands that take longer than 1 second be reported:

    export REPORTTIME=1

As randuser points out it's an environment variable. There's another one called TIMEFMT which lets you format the output.

Some examples: https://github.com/search?q=TIMEFMT+extension%3Azshrc&ty...

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