I want to test my network file transfer speeds - is there an official cmd for timing?

[spaceballl]

I want to do a file transfer from my laptop to another laptop, to the time machine drive, etc.

I can just stopwatch these but is there a terminal command or something that I can use to time it officially? Thanks!

 

[foidulus]

I want to do a file transfer from my laptop to another laptop, to the time machine drive, etc.

I can just stopwatch these but is there a terminal command or something that I can use to time it officially? Thanks!

rsync will give you some nice stats. You could always write a quick shell script to do this too:

date
scp bob bob@bob:/bob
date

of course you would have to enter the password or do a private key exchange for that to work.