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Subject: RE: Timing problem
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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 18:23:22 +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 6:29 PM
> To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject: RE: Timing problem
> 
> 
> 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.

Doh!

try this:
(time somecommand) | egrep -e '^real'

Rob
 
> 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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