Question

I want to redirect the output of a bash script to a file.

The script is:

#!/bin/bash echo 'recursive c' for ((i=0;i<=20;i+=1)); do time ./recursive done 

But if I run it like this:

script.sh >> temp.txt 

only the output of ./recursive will be captured in the file.

I want to capture the output of time command in the file.

Answer 1

Redirect STDERR to STDOUT:

script.sh >> temp.txt  2>&1 

Or if using bash 4.0:

$ script.sh &>> temp.txt 

(Thanks for the second form go to commenter ephemient. I can’t verify as I have an earlier bash.)

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My tests were surprising:

$ time sleep 1 > /dev/null 2>&1  real    0m1.036s user    0m0.002s sys     0m0.032s 

The problem is the redirection was included as part of the command to be timed. Here was the solution for this test:

$ (time sleep 1) > /dev/null 2>&1 

I don’t think this is part of your problem, but it seemed worth a mention.