On Sat, 15 Dec 2000, Shea Martin wrote:
> Here is an example of what I want to do:
>
> Say I would like to print the time it takes to list the contents of /dev
> printing only the line real 0m2.546s.
>
> time ls | grep -h real
>
> this outputs nothing, b/c grep only searchs the output of ls, not the
> output of time.
>
> let me know if you gots a nifty sol'n. I am sure it is very simple.
export TIMEFORMAT="real %lR"
time ls > /dev/null
time is a bash built-in; "man bash" for more info.
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