Time command output is not stored into the variable.

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Re: Time command output is not stored into the variable. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 07, 2010 at 05:39 UTC
And then there's the issue that the output you are expecting is from a sh builtin (not the external command from my first post), but you didn't ensure that sh is executed to interpret the command. my $time = `/bin/sh -c 'time ...'`; [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Time command output is not stored into the variable. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 07, 2010 at 05:30 UTC
What error? A usage error like the following? `Usage: time [-apvV] [-f format] [-o file] [--append] [--verbose] [--portability] [--format=format] [--output=file] [--version] [--quiet] [--help] command [arg...]` [download] The program needs an argument, a command to time. This has nothing to do with Perl.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Time command output is not stored into the variable. by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Apr 07, 2010 at 06:18 UTC
You probably want to use Perl's built-in times function.	[reply]
Re^2: Time command output is not stored into the variable. by ungalnanban (Pilgrim) on Apr 07, 2010 at 06:45 UTC
I know the time functions but I want to store the time command output in to a variable. The time command output is printed in STDERR. How can I store the output in to a variable, you have any idea? --$ugum@r--	[reply]
Re^3: Time command output is not stored into the variable. by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 07, 2010 at 07:36 UTC
The output of `time` is printed to STDERR, but after all the redirections are performed. Therefore, to capture it, you have to start `time` in a subshell. This has nothing to do with perl, though. perl -e '$a=`(time ls) 2>&1 >/dev/null`;print "[$a]"' [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Time command output is not stored into the variable. by almut (Canon) on Apr 07, 2010 at 09:20 UTC
Re^3: Time command output is not stored into the variable. by Anonymous Monk on Apr 07, 2010 at 06:52 UTC
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