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Subject: RE: Timing problem
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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 18:16:57 +1000
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Morrison, John" <John DOT Morrison AT uk DOT experian DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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> -----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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