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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Storing output of "time" command to a variable Post 302489674 by methyl on Friday 21st of January 2011 08:11:11 AM
Old 01-21-2011
radoulov makes a valid point. The output from most versions of "time" goes to STDERR not STDOUT.

If you haven't got bash:
Code:
utime=`time ls -R 2>&1 | grep \^user`

echo $utime
user 0.0

 

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UTIME(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  UTIME(2)

NAME
utime, utimes - change access and/or modification times of an inode SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <utime.h> int utime(const char *filename, struct utimbuf *buf); #include <sys/time.h> int utimes(char *filename, struct timeval *tvp); DESCRIPTION
utime changes the access and modification times of the inode specified by filename to the actime and modtime fields of buf respectively. If buf is NULL, then the access and modification times of the file are set to the current time. The utimbuf structure is: struct utimbuf { time_t actime; /* access time */ time_t modtime; /* modification time */ }; In the Linux DLL 4.4.1 libraries, utimes is just a wrapper for utime: tvp[0].tv_sec is actime, and tvp[1].tv_sec is modtime. The timeval structure is: struct timeval { long tv_sec; /* seconds */ long tv_usec; /* microseconds */ }; RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. ERRORS
Other errors may occur. EACCES Permission to write the file is denied. ENOENT filename does not exist. CONFORMING TO
utime: SVr4, SVID, POSIX. SVr4 documents additional error conditions EFAULT, EINTR, ELOOP, EMULTIHOP, ENAMETOOLONG, ENOLINK, ENOTDIR, ENO- LINK, ENOTDIR, EPERM, EROFS. utimes: BSD 4.3 SEE ALSO
stat(2) Linux 1995-06-10 UTIME(2)
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