Re: time doesn't behave

[Vasco Pedro]

Hi,

> 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
> ===<
> While this should be:
> 
> ===>
> eelco@ns6:~> time namp localhost 2>&1 | grep real
> 
> real 0m0.455s
> ===<
> 
> The problem seems to be that the output of time bypasses the grep, venthough
> I've redirected stderr to stdout.
> 
> Any idea what's wrong?

`time' isn't just timing the namp command, it times the whole pipe.
To get what you want, you should write

        (time namp localhost) 2>&1 | grep real

Better yet, use the TIMEFORMAT variable.

Regards,
vasco