Re: [Help-bash] Howto get tags into TIMEFORMAT? (was Re: howto redirect time output to perl -pe "chomp; "?

[Larry Evans]

On 01/03/2017 03:23 PM, Larry Evans wrote:
> On 01/03/2017 03:14 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 1/3/17 3:09 PM, Larry Evans wrote:
> >
> > > for TIMEFORMAT lead to the following:
> > >
> > > If this variable is not set, Bash acts as if it had the value
> > >
> > > $'\nreal\t%3lR\nuser\t%3lU\nsys\t%3lS'
> > >
> > > So, I figured I could use:
> > >
> > >   TIMEFORMAT='\nreal\t%1R'
> >
> > You forgot the leading `$'.
> I should have also said I tried that, but got this:
>
> make -f time.mk show
> echo -n "time{">time.out
> TIMEFORMAT=\nreal\t%1R'
> { time sleep .22222 ; } 2>&1 | perl -pe "chomp;" >>time.out
> echo "}time">>time.out
> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> /bin/bash: -c: line 4: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> time.mk:24: recipe for target 'time' failed
> make: *** [time] Error 1
>
> Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Tue Jan  3 15:22:10
>
> I've attached the complete makefile and hope that helps.
OOPS.  I should have used $$ instead of just $ inside the makefile.
With that change, it works.
Sorry for noise :(