RE: Timing problem

["Morrison, John" <John dot Morrison at uk dot experian dot com>]

Nope:

$ (time ls) | egrep '^real'

real    0m0.422s
user    0m0.062s
sys     0m0.077s

What made you think of the brackets?  I think that the ls is being piped
into grep.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 06 July 2001 09:23
> To: Morrison, John; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Timing problem
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Morrison, John [mailto:John.Morrison@uk.experian.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 6:29 PM
> > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> > Subject: RE: Timing problem
> > 
> > 
> > Nope, time is 'built-in' to the bash shell.  Try typing
> > 
> > bash -c help
> > 
> > to get a list of built-in functions and
> > 
> > help time
> > 
> > to get something a little more specific.
> 
> Doh!
> 
> try this:
> (time somecommand) | egrep -e '^real'
> 
> Rob
>  
> > Thanks for replying though...
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> > > Sent: Friday, 06 July 2001 09:17
> > > To: Morrison, John; cygwin@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: RE: Timing problem
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Morrison, John [mailto:John.Morrison@uk.experian.com]
> > > > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 6:17 PM
> > > > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> > > > Subject: Timing problem
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > First I'm going to apologies - I'm a user of cygwin, not a 
> > > > hacker and I also
> > > > come from a windoze not a *nix background.  I'm having a problem
> > > > manipulating the output from time, I'd like to get just the 
> > > > 'real' time and
> > > > thought I could do something like:
> > > > 
> > > > $ time somecommand | egrep -e '^real'
> > > 
> > > I have a full cygwin install...
> > > ==
> > > $ type -p time
> > > 
> > > ==
> > > time isn't a cygwin command. "date" is, and will give you 
> > the current
> > > time, with a load of options for GMT etc.
> > >  
> > > > but all combinations of std:out redirections fail to 
> send the time
> > > > information into the grep instruction, they always get 
> > > > written to console.
> > > 
> > > Thank MS for this - I believe you are running an MS time program.
> > > 
> > > Rob
> > >  
> > > > Please, is there anyway to do this?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > J.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > 
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