Re: [MLUG] Passing options to the time command

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/3/07, Adam Procter <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
>  Right, but observe:
>
>
>  [EMAIL:PROTECTED ~]$ /usr/bin/time -V
>  GNU time 1.7
>
>  [EMAIL:PROTECTED ~]$ time -V
>  -V: Command not found.
>  0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0%      0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>
>  If you don't supply the full path, bash will use its built-in version of
> the command, which is less featureful (or doesn't support the -V flag, in
> any case).

Ooh! One of my pet peeves! I hate it when I can do this:

$ which time
/usr/bin/time
$ time -V
-bash: -V: command not found

EMAIL:PROTECTED bash!

I really think bash should have "which" as a built-in, so it can tell
you when it's hosing you over and maybe do this:

$ which time
/usr/bin/time shadowed by bash function "time"

There's another situation I run into that's similarly annoying, but I
guess it's too late for me to remember what it is...

jking

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