Re: [MLUG] Passing options to the time command

["Matt Krause" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I ended up just downloaded the source and rolling my own. Works fine.

Thanks for all the info.

Matt

On 11/3/07, Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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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