Question

I’m running the following command (on Ubuntu)

time wget 'http://localhost:8080/upLoading.jsp' --timeout=0

and get a result in the command line

real    0m0.042s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

I’ve tried the following:

time -a o.txt wget 'http://localhost:8080/upLoading.jsp' --timeout=0 

and get the following error

-a: command not found

I want to get the result to be redirected to some file. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can direct the stdout output of any commmand to a file using the > character.
To append the output to a file use >>

Note that unless done explicitly, output to stderr will still go to the console. To direct both stderr and stdout to the same output stream use

   command 2>&1 outfile.txt (with bash)

or

   command >& outfile.txt (with t/csh)

If you are working with bash All about redirection will give you more details and control about redirection.