Re: [MLUG] Passing options to the time command

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/3/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Nowlin, Dan wrote:
>
> > Ah got it.  Thanks for the info Adam.
>
> Stephen also told you correctly about that same shell issue.
>
> Stephen said that there was no -V option with "time" on bengal, which
> seems not quite true, but you should note the weirdness of "man time" on
> Red Hat, at least on my Red Hat box:  It lists one option, -p, and you
> then have to scroll down two pages to find GNU OPTIONS, and beyond that to
> find GNU STANDARD OPTIONS.  The -V is listed there, under GNU STANDARD
> OPTIONS.

But at least you get that. On Mac OS X 10.5 (at least) we get GNU's
bash, but we then get regular BSD utilities in most cases, but not for
things like grep where GNU's grep stomps all over the BSD one. But
then we get BSD awk rather than gawk, which might matter to me some
day.

Also, I made a thinko in my last post. which could probably get
environment information in the same way that awk does (in non-GNU
systems).

jking

  So it's a very unusual man page layout and I think it is written
> that way to imply that UNIX time has only one option, and in fact that is
> what I see under Solaris, and that the other options are GNU additions to
> the standard UNIX time command.
>
> Mike
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