Re: [MLUG] Passing options to the time command

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> This is one place where tcsh is better than bash!

As a long-time user of tcsh now switching to bash, I can tell you that 
people often think that one of the two shells has a feature that the other 
lacks, but once you look into it further, you find that the feature is 
present in both shells.  Sometimes a non-default configuration is required 
to enable the feature.


> %which time
> time: shell built-in command.
>
> I actually assumed this would be true in bash.  This partially explains 
> my earlier misinformation (for which I apologize).

In bash, you have to use "type" instead of "which":

$ type time
time is a shell keyword

$ type type
type is a shell builtin

(My last message went into more detail.)

I think you had it right though:  The problem was that the "which" command 
was pointing to the wrong executable and you said so.

Mike

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