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. mark