Re: timing a command execution with perl

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Re^2: timing a command execution with perl by Anonymous Monk on Dec 09, 2014 at 14:59 UTC
Indeed I used it in my perl program: `system("time", "program-name", "file-name");` but the out is different (and confused) with respect to that right output I have just typing `time program-name file-name` in the shell.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: timing a command execution with perl by Anonymous Monk on Dec 09, 2014 at 15:07 UTC
time typically outputs its values to `STDERR` (unless your version supports the `-o` option). To capture `STDERR` in a Perl program, something like Capture::Tiny or IPC::Run3 makes that easy. (Or you can use shell redirects.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]