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How can I time portions of a Linux shell script?

Just picked up your book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts and already have one quick question: While working on the startup scripts, I would like to place log timers at certain portions of scripts. Is it possible to log point A at he beginning of a section, do the processing, log point B at the end of the section and then log B minus A so I know exactly how long a section took to process?...

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