diff --git a/examples/run_benches.ion b/examples/run_benches.ion
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4bf68b448ea5d22e5b61a891b28ab3ef048c184c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/run_benches.ion
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+
+# Function for timing each individual script
+fn check_timing script
+	# set var utime to time of executing script
+	let utime = $(time $script > /dev/null)
+	echo $script $utime
+end
+
+cargo build --release
+
+for file in ./*.ion
+	check_timing $file >> temp.out
+end
+
+
+cat temp.out | column -t
+
diff --git a/examples/run_benches.sh b/examples/run_benches.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index b4f5135d73c89a9d8071d3d98b844944c84e3ec8..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/examples/run_benches.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -e -u -o pipefail
-
-EXAMPLES_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
-PROJECT_DIR=$(dirname $(cargo locate-project | awk -F\" '{print $4}'))
-
-TIMEFORMAT='%U seconds'
-
-# Some of the examples assume that the working directory is the project root
-# and it never hurts to force consistency regardless
-cd $PROJECT_DIR
-
-function check_timing {
-
-    # Run script and redirect error to /dev/null
-    utime="$( time ( $PROJECT_DIR/target/release/ion $1 2> /dev/null) 2>&1 1>/dev/null )"
-    echo $1 $utime
-}
-
-# Build release binary
-#cargo build --release
-
-set +e
-# Iterate over every Ion script in examples directory
-for i in $EXAMPLES_DIR/*.ion; do
-    check_timing $i >> $EXAMPLES_DIR/temp.out;
-done
-
-cat $EXAMPLES_DIR/temp.out | column -t;
-
-rm $EXAMPLES_DIR/temp.out;
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/examples/temp.out b/examples/temp.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b0db5a1fbc0830874835f3934368f75c78aa7349
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/temp.out
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