[CentOS] redirecting time output

Tue Nov 23 16:04:09 UTC 2010
Rainer Traut <tr.ml at gmx.de>

Am 23.11.2010 15:30, schrieb m.roth at 5-cent.us:
> Rainer Traut wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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 at mail.com
>>
>> real    0m0.126s
>> user    0m0.000s
>> sys     0m0.000s
>>
>> 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.

Thx
Rainer