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How do I show real time online from time output in Debian?

KuJoeKuJoe Member, Host Rep
edited February 2012 in Help

Anybody know how to format the output on the "time" command in Debian? I am only looking for the real output, not user or sys. I'm out of ideas and searching for the time command on Google is really hard to do.

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    you could always just grep it?

    Francisco

  • KuJoeKuJoe Member, Host Rep

    I tried that, no dice. :(

    time cat /testfile | grep real
    ^^^^^^^^ Doesn't work.

  • rds100rds100 Member

    2>&1 | grep real

  • Mon5t3rMon5t3r Member
    edited February 2012

    use full path perhaps?

    ~# type -a time
time is a shell keyword
time is /usr/bin/time

    or use 2> while "copying" to file.
    edit: like what rds100 said.

  • NickMNickM Member

    /usr/bin/time -q -f "%e" cat /testfile > /dev/null

    Make sure you use the full path to time, otherwise you'll get the shell built-in, which doesn't work the same.

  • KuJoeKuJoe Member, Host Rep

    LoL, I didn't have time installed apparently... even though it was showing me the real/user/sys output. Weird.

    Installed it with apt-get and fixed it. Thanks all! :)

  • NickMNickM Member

    @KuJoe said: LoL, I didn't have time installed apparently... even though it was showing me the real/user/sys output. Weird.

    Not so weird. Bash has a version of time built in, which doesn't offer the full set of features that the real version has.

  • yomeroyomero Member

    @rds100 said: 2>&1 | grep real

    FTW

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