Re: [MLUG] Passing options to the time command

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Matt Krause wrote:
> Does anyone know how to pass options to the time command?
>
> According to the man page,
>
> time -V
>
> is supposed to display the version of time you are running, but
> instead it thinks -V is the command you want to time. There are other
> examples in the man page and none of those work either.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.


You have got to be careful with commands like "time."  You think you are 
running something like the /usr/bin/time program, but you might be 
running an internal shell command.  This is certain ly true if you are 
using the csh or tcsh shell.  What does "which time" tell you?

But also, on my (admittedly FreeBSD) system, "man time" doesn't mention 
a -V option.  The same is also true on bengal.missouri.edu, which I 
think is a Linux system.  So maybe the man page is messed up.



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