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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 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".

And the "which" comamnd is your friend

as in

$ which time

Be aware that

$ which which

can also yield interesting results

(hint, there is /usr/bin/which  and also built-in versions in
ksh, pdksh, bash, and possibly csh and tcsh)


> Randall Schulz



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