bug in time?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 07.02.2004 schrieb m l um 22:41:
> hiya,
> while running bash shell  :
> 
> [feenixxi at sandbox]$ time
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
> 
> [feenixxi at sandbox ]$ time --help
> bash: --help: command not found
> 
> real    0m0.001s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.001s
> 
> time command works fine in both tcsh and csh, what's wrong with bash?

No bug, read "man time". The correct syntax is "time command", like:

$ time locate foo.bar
 
real    0m0.179s
user    0m0.110s
sys     0m0.020s

Alexander


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