On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:24, Cowles, Steve wrote: > 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
Aha! Great catch, Steve. I use time so rarely, that hadn't ever occurred to me. Live and learn. :) -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
