Re: time doesn't behave

[EHV-00]

Dear Francis,

Adding the subshell-brackets does it for me....
Thanks a lot for your great help.

Kind Regards,

Eelco
"Francis Montagnac" <fm@sophia.inria.fr> wrote in message
news:9arp84$2j3$1@news-sop.inria.fr...
> In article <9akfos$gnu$1@porthos.nl.uu.net>,
>  "EHV-00" <test@philips.com> writes:
> >Dear all,
>
> >I am trying to 'time' a process and grep the output.
> >For some reason the 'time' is not behaving correctly:
>
> >===>
> >eelco@ns6:~> time namp localhost 2>&1 | grep real
> >
> >real 0m0.455s
> >user 0m0.100s
> >sys 0m0.190s
>
> You should use a subshell to do that. Try:
>
> (time namp localhost) 2>&1 | grep real
>
> I use the following function to capture the realtime spent by a process:
>
> realtime() {
>     {
>         ( TIMEFORMAT="%R"; time { { "$@"; } >&4 2>&1 ; } ) 2>&1
>     } 4>&2
> }
>
> then just say:
>
> var=$(realtime namp localhost)
>
> to store the real time spent in var.
>
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