Re: [Help-bash] Howto get tags into TIMEFORMAT? (was Re: howto redirect time output to perl -pe "chomp; "?

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/3/17 4:23 PM, Larry Evans wrote:
> On 01/03/2017 03:14 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 1/3/17 3:09 PM, Larry Evans wrote:
>>
>>> for TIMEFORMAT lead to the following:
>>>
>>> If this variable is not set, Bash acts as if it had the value
>>>
>>> $'\nreal\t%3lR\nuser\t%3lU\nsys\t%3lS'
>>>
>>> So, I figured I could use:
>>>
>>>   TIMEFORMAT='\nreal\t%1R'
>>
>> You forgot the leading `$'.
>>
> I should have also said I tried that, but got this:

You need to double the `$' to get it through make and into the shell
that runs the recipe.


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