Check the performance of a script by re-running many times while measuring the running time 

for i in {1..10}; do time curl http://localhost:8000 >/dev/null; done 2>&1 | grep real

December 17, 2011 — bashoneliners

Explanation

  • {1..10} creates a sequence from 1 to 10, for running the main script 10 times
  • 2>&1 redirects stderr to stdout, this is necessary to capture the "output" of the time builtin
script-execution performance-testing
for grep curl time