Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/07/06/04:27:25
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Morrison, John [mailto:John DOT Morrison AT uk DOT experian DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 6:17 PM
> To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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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