Redirect bash built-in output to stdout

TIME=$( { time YOUR_COMMAND_HERE; } 2>&1 ) ; echo $TIME

I've had a horrible time trying to pipe the output of some shell built-ins like 'time' to other programs. The built-in doesn't output to stdout or stderr most of the time but using the above will let you pipe the output to something else.

Sample Output

$ TIME=$( { time host reddit.com; } 2>&1 ) ; echo $TIME
reddit.com has address 63.85.36.40 reddit.com has address 63.85.36.74 reddit.com mail is handled by 10 mail.reddit.com. real 0m0.201s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.001s

By: allrightname

2010-11-18 15:48:05

echo time bash stdout time redirecting output built-in

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