On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 05:04:09PM +0100, Rainer Traut wrote:
> Am 23.11.2010 15:30, schrieb m.roth@xxxxxxxxx:
> > Rainer Traut wrote:
> >> am trying to pipe output from time command and output from a shell
> >> script to the mail program.
> >> So far it's not working as expected...
> >>
> >> # time echo "test" 2>&1 | mail -s "timetest" my@xxxxxxxx
> >> The time command writes to stderror, but here the redirection seems to
> >> apply to the echo command?
> > Try `time echo "test"` etc. That way, it executes in a subshell, and has
> > one STDOUT and STDERR.
> Ok, yes this works.
The problem you're coming across is that "time" is a shell built-in and
not an external, so the shell is parsing "time foo 2>&1" as if it was
something similar to "time (foo 2>&1)".
The two common solutions are:
1) explicitly use /usr/bin/time - eg
/usr/bin/time -p foo 2>&1
2) force a subshell - eg
(time foo) 2>&1
--
rgds
Stephen
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