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Install multitime with Homebrew, Nix, apt

Time command execution over multiple executions. Version 1.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#multitime.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install multitime

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#multitime

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mu/multitime/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Ubuntu aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install multitime

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · multitime · source: archive.ubuntu.com

overview

Package summary

Time command execution over multiple executions

Commands and aliases

  • multitime

history

Project history and usage

multitime is Laurence Tratt's small benchmarking utility that extends Unix `time` by running a command repeatedly and reporting summary statistics. Tratt's overview starts from a common problem with one-shot timing: caches, background load, CPU and I/O scheduling, and user cherry-picking can make a single `time` result misleading. multitime answers that with repeated runs and output that includes means, standard deviations, minimums, medians, and maximums.

Project history

The tool is intentionally narrow. It times external commands rather than becoming a language-specific profiler, and it includes options for controlling standard input and output across runs. Its man page also documents batch files for comparing different commands by randomly interleaving executions, which spreads machine noise more evenly across alternatives. That makes it a useful command-line companion for compiler, shell, and systems experiments where the benchmark is already expressible as a command.

How it is used

Its package-manager niche is a lightweight developer and research tool: smaller than benchmarking harnesses, more statistically honest than running `time` by hand several times, and easy to install through Homebrew, Nix, and Debian/Ubuntu-style packages.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
multitimeexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.5
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:multitime
Version1.5
Package managerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://tratt.net/laurie/src/multitime/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/ltratt/multitime
Bottlenot recorded
Servicenone declared

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

multitime

nix profile install nixpkgs#multitime
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Multitime
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mu/multitime/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

multitime 1.4-2

time-like tool which does multiple runs

https://tratt.net/laurie/src/multitime/

sudo apt install multitime
  • Section: universe/utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Multitime
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: multitime from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • pkg.so package database
  • pkgdb category and tag curation