Jason Dixon wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 17:38, Peram's List wrote:
>> I appreciate your quick response.
>> Is there any way I get the time taken for the execution of a script
>> from the script itself instead of typing it at the command line.
> 
> To be honest, I can't get GNU time to even honor its own flags.  It's
> also not working properly with respect to stderr redirection.  I'm at
> a loss here.

Bash has its own built-in version of time. The GNU version of time needs to
be called with a full path. To redirect only stderr to a file... (per the
man pages)

/usr/bin/time -o /tmp/stderr.out ls -l

or using standard shell redirection...

/usr/bin/time ls -l 2>/tmp/stderr.out

Steve Cowles


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