[clug] Redirect time command output to file

[Daniel Pittman]

Hal <hal.ashburner at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm running a cron job to do some testing for me and want to record some
> pretty basic performance numbers. The time command looks like the thing I
> want.
>
> Now I've been bitten because "man time" is actually full of lies.

...is accurate documentation of the non-built-in time command. ;)

] time /bin/true

real    0m0.003s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

] /usr/bin/time /bin/true
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 400%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 960maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+83minor)pagefaults 0swaps

HTH, etc.
        Daniel

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