Re: problem with the time command

[Paul Eggert]

"Link, Andreas" <address@hidden> writes:

> If I execute the command 'time myprogram -myoption' with a fork routine,
> e.g. in a perl program, I get the process ID of the 'time' command, but
> not the process ID of the 'myprogram' command. Is it possible to get the
> process ID of the 'myprogram' command for example by reading a
> environmant variable?

You can do something like this:

time sh -c 'echo $$ && exec myprogram -myoption'

This will output the process-ID of your subprogram before executing it.