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