On 11/18/05, Marcelino Mata <mmata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Running RHEL 3.0 x86_64 and RH9. > > I have searched the internet for over 2 hours looking for this > information...this should be easy...according to various sites it should > just work. > > I am trying to log the time a command takes to a log file with the > "time" command. For example, the time below measures how long time it > took for wc to count the text in /etc/hosts. > > # time wc /etc/hosts > 72 332 2762 /etc/hosts > > real 0m0.002s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.000s > > According to time manual I can redirect actual values to a file with the > -o or --output option. Example shown below, long it took the wc command > to perform the operation: > > time --output=log wc /etc/hosts > > However, all I get is this > > -bash: --output=log: command not found Try /usr/bin/time to run the GNU version of time instead of the shell built-in version. John -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
