On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 10:09 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > Im trying to write some scripts to record some times for creating > > > graphs. Im trying to use the time command and have it output to a > > > file. In the man page it gives details of how one can use the -o and > > > -a switches to output to and append to a file. However the utility > > > does not seem to recognise these switches. It does mention that these > > > are GNU options but I thought the version I had was the GNU version. > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > > > You may find it easier to use /usr/bin/date in your scripts...... > > Date won't give him the same stats as time (time shows the different usage > of kernel & user times, etc.). > > For the OP, the man page is probably from the generic man pages ebuild, but > the time you have is probably the built-in shell version (verify by typing > "which time" and you'll probably get the 'no time in ...' response). > > You can find the gnu version of time at > http://www.gnu.org/software/time/time.html. >
... or, as stated earlier ``emerge sys-apps/time''. :) dunno if I remember right (I've deleted early posts of this thread.) If one wants to append rather than overwrite a file she needs to $ time -ao outputfile command -a -r -g -s instead of $ time -a outputfile command -a -r -g -s or $ time -af formatstring -o outputfile command -a -r -g -s -- [email protected] mailing list
