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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 18 May 2007 10:16, Herbert Georg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to use the command "time" to access information about a
> job, but without success.
> The man page tells me that I can use options to time, like:
>
> ...
>
> but nothing of this works. All I get is (in the last example):
>
> bash: --help: command not found
>
> ...
>
> I get the same thing in all option cases.
>
> Why doesn't it accept any option, and keep interpreting the options
> as the commands?

Time exists both as a BASH built-in and as a binary executable. The man 
page for time describes the executable. Information about the BASH 
built-in is available in the BASH man page or via "help time".


Randall Schulz
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