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From: "Morrison, John" <John DOT Morrison AT uk DOT experian DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Timing problem
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:29:12 +0100 
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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.

Thanks for replying though...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au]
> Sent: Friday, 06 July 2001 09:17
> To: Morrison, John; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: Timing problem
> 
> 
> > -----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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