On 05/18/2007 01:16 PM somebody named 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:
time -o output-file command command-args time -v command command-args time --help
but nothing of this works. All I get is (in the last example):
bash: --help: command not found
real 0m0.001s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s
I get the same thing in all option cases.
Why doesn't it accept any option, and keep interpreting the options as the commands?
Use what you want to time as the argument to the "time" command, e.g., $ time date Fri May 18 14:39:18 EDT 2007 real 0m0.002s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.002s shows how long the "date" command took to execute. You can also add arguments to the "date" (or whatever) command used. -- "This world ain't big enough for the both of us," said the big noema to the little noema. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org