On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:50:34AM +0200, Anti Räis wrote: > Description: > Bash unexpectedly evaluates a builtin command argument when it is > executed after `time` keyword. This does not happen when the builtin > command is executed at later time or with different type of argument.
> alias exp='"$($1)"' > echo exp > time > echo exp > echo exp Hmm, there is certainly something weird going on here. I can reproduce this in Debian's 4.4. It has something to do with alias expansions, and failing to provide a command on a 'time' command (which is quite a bizarre thing to do). wooledg:~$ cat x #!/bin/bash shopt -s expand_aliases alias x=date echo x 1 time echo x 2 time : echo x 3 wooledg:~$ ./x x 1 real 0.000 user 0.000 sys 0.000 date 2 real 0.000 user 0.000 sys 0.000 x 3 As long as I provide a command to 'time', all is fine. I get the same results in an interactive shell. wooledg:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 9.3 wooledg:~$ dpkg -l bash | tail -1 ii bash 4.4-5 amd64 GNU Bourne Again SHell wooledg:~$ echo "$BASH_VERSION" 4.4.12(1)-release wooledg:~$ declare -p TIMEFORMAT declare -x TIMEFORMAT="real %R user %U sys %S"
