I am using the time command in a script however the output of the time command will display on my screen but not my output file. Any Ideas on how to fix this?

> cat test.sh
#############################
#!/usr/bin/sh

for COMMAND in pwd
do
time ${COMMAND}
done | sed "s/^/ /g" | tee -a test.out
#############################

> test.sh

real 0m0.00s
user 0m0.00s
sys 0m0.00s
/tmp


> cat test.out
/tmp

#!/usr/bin/sh

for COMMAND in pwd
do
time ${COMMAND} | sed "s/^/ /g" | tee -a test.out
done


cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam

The time command output its information to stderr, not stdout so you would need to redirect stderr.

devtakh that didn't seem to do any different.

reborg that did work. i thought i tired this early as "done | sed "s/^/ /g" | tee -a test.out 2>&1" but it didnt seem to work for me. thanks for your help.

gotcha...
since time command doesn't display on stdout..
2>&1 does the trick..thats great.
so you can play around with 2>&1..redirecting stderr to stdout and then do whatever you may want..


cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam