Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:17:40 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: "P. B. S." <avenger@vip.bg> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: time -l date ==> bash: -l: command not found Bug? Message-ID: <20050225091740.GA10592@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20050225020659.GA75395@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <002001c51add$d515d6c0$3564015a@apise6e37e23bb> <20050225020659.GA75395@xor.obsecurity.org>
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in message <20050225020659.GA75395@xor.obsecurity.org>, wrote Kris Kennaway thusly... > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:00:49AM +0200, P. B. S. wrote: PBS, Do wrap lines around 69 or so characters to give me no incentive to ignore your mail otherwise. > > "time" doesn't seem to accept any options. The first thing on > > the line after "time" is taken as the utility to execute. I need > > the -l option. Am I misusing "time" or what? > > Your shell (apparently bash) provides a builtin time function. If > you want to use FreeBSD's time(1) binary, call it by absolute path > (/usr/bin/time) Look also in bash(1) man page which states somewhere to use '\' in order to use the real command (as it appears in $PATH of course) and avoid built-in/alias. - Parv --
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