duration for which a Houdini process is running

[bhaveshpandey]

hi there..been back after a while..just got things settled down here in Bournemouth

I'm working on a script which would allow me to document my production hours for any particular

project..

the problem is I could not figure out how to automate the process such that each instance

of Houdini I run, would know exactly how long its been running for..

I can extract the system's time when I run the script so I have the process's end time with me..

for getting the time when the instance of Houdini was run I guess I could again extract the system's time

and store it as a Global variable..?? (just a wild guess)

I also tried using the "os" module's "system" function to try and get the end time though..but it returns a 0 value..

(in the terminal it shows the date and time BUT also throws out 0...while in houdini's python shell it just shows zero

....I'm sure i'm missing out on some piece of information here??)

is there any better or efficient way for the same??

cheers

[crunch]

hi there..been back after a while..just got things settled down here in Bournemouth

I'm working on a script which would allow me to document my production hours for any particular project.

...

How about a simple wrapper script:

#!/bin/sh
echo Start houdini `date` >> $HOME/houdini-run.log
houdini -foreground $*
echo End houdini `date` >> $HOME/houdini-run.log

[bhaveshpandey]

great!!

that was pretty quick

thanks