[ale] gnu time

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 14:12:15 EST 2010


BINGO!! That's the problem. I'm modifying my process to use full path.

2010/2/17 Björn Gustafsson <bg-ale at bjorng.net>

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The "time" command is a useful tool
> >
> > What is being called when I exclude the full path? A locate produced lots
> of
> > stuff with "time" in the name but only the /usr/bin/time was an
> executable.
>
> bash -c 'which time'
> /usr/bin/time
>
> bash -ic 'which time'
> time is a shell keyword
>
> The `time' that is vexing you is a shell keyword similar to `while',
> the difference being that it's only implemented for interactive shells
> in bash. Technically it is not considered a shell builtin, but
> functionally that's what it amounts to.
>
> --
> Björn Gustafsson
>
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