Re: Debian 6.0.4 i386 /usr/bin/time command line arguments broken?

David Christensen, 10.03.2012:
debian-user:

I was attempting to use the "time" command to do some benchmarking
today, and it seems that command line arguments are broken (see
console session, below).


Any suggestions?

This came up on the list very recently. There's a bash reserved word
"time" so you need to give the full path for the program time.

$ /usr/bin/time --help
Usage: /usr/bin/time [-apvV] [-f format] [-o file] [--append] [--verbose]
[--portability] [--format=format] [--output=file] [--version]
[--quiet] [--help] command [arg...]


TIA,

David



2012-03-10 14:16:12 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ time

real 0m0.000s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

2012-03-10 14:16:17 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ time -o foo.out echo 'foo'
-bash: -o: command not found

real 0m0.001s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

2012-03-10 14:16:19 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ time --help
-bash: --help: command not found

real 0m0.001s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

2012-03-10 14:16:22 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version
6.0.4

2012-03-10 14:16:30 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ uname -a
Linux p43400e 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 16:04:25 UTC 2012 i686
GNU/Linux

2012-03-10 14:19:01 dpchrist@p43400e ~
$ set | grep TIME


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