Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:08:32 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Hawkins <peter@clari.net.au> To: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav <smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/7368: added options to /usr/bin/time Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980723195742.21124A-100000@dana.clari.net.au> In-Reply-To: <199807230820.BAA10102@freefall.freebsd.org>
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This patch would render inoperative a number of legacy scripts and be
a substantial departure from other unix implementations. The only reason
I can see someone proposing this is if they needed to send the output
from time(1) to stdout (eg for a pipe) and were not aware that a simple
redirection of stderr to stdout ( 2>&1 for sh(1) ) does exactly that.
for example,
/usr/bin/time {my command> 2>&1 | {my other command}
and
/usr/bin/time {my command> > {myfile} 2>&1
work just fine.
Peter
Hilink Internet Peter Hawkins
381 Swan St Richmond,
Vic, Australia Ph: +61-3-9421 2006 Fax: +61-3-9421 2007
http://www.hilink.com.au Peter@hilink.com.au
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