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Date:      Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:13:05 +0930
From:      Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: time -h option not working?
Message-ID:  <20030404121305.46ebbbf0.tim@spyderweb.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <006001c2fa52$ec77ed60$0a64a8c0@webizepc>
References:  <006001c2fa52$ec77ed60$0a64a8c0@webizepc>

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In the immortal words of "Carl Morley" <bsdmn@webize.com.au>...
> I just tried to use the time command to time a process, but with the
> -h(human readable) output option:
> 
> Eg. time -h ping -c 5 some_ip_address
> 
> But I get back:
> -h: Command not found.
> 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0%      0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> 

type which time and you will probably find that it's an internal command
to tcsh and the -h switch doesn't work except fr the actual base system
command



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