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Gravityloss on Sept 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: “grep -R doesn't automatically search amazon”

Perhaps you could do it like the bash command time, whose output is a bit hard to capture...

jlgreco on Sept 25, 2012 [–]

GNU source is never a pleasure to read, but as far as I can tell the bash builtin "times" prints to stdout.

This can be observed by running:

  bash -c 'times whoami' > /dev/null

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