Linux terminal measure cpu usage of a command

Question

Id like to measure the cpu usage during the execution of a command. If I type $ cp BigFile Location Id like to see how much this process used cpu power

Answer 1

htop is a graphical solution in the shell - maybe this one helps

There you can search for it.

Answer 2

top command will show you memory and CPU usage,

you can pipe with grep

top | grep chrome  # for google chrome cpu and mem usage for and example

Answer 3

I recently found a tool which measures time, cpu usage, memory usage all at once. Its called /usr/bin/time and should be installed via apt