Package: debianutils
Version: 3.4
Severity: normal
'time' is a program that the 'which' program can find:
$ which time
/usr/bin/time
But, 'time' is also a Bash reserved word:
$ man bash | grep 'time reserved word'
If the time reserved word precedes a pipeline, the elapsed as
well as
If the user does not know about the Bash 'time' reserved word, confusion
results:
$ time echo 'foo'
foo
real 0m0.000s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
$ man time | grep . | head
TIME(1) TIME(1)
NAME
time - run programs and summarize system resource usage
SYNOPSIS
time [ -apqvV ] [ -f FORMAT ] [ -o FILE ]
[ --append ] [ --verbose ] [ --quiet ] [ --portability ]
[ --format=FORMAT ] [ --output=FILE ] [ --version ]
[ --help ] COMMAND [ ARGS ]
DESCRIPTION
time run the program COMMAND with any given arguments
ARG.... When
$ time -o foo.out echo 'foo'
-bash: -o: command not found
real 0m0.001s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.000s
$ time --help
-bash: --help: command not found
real 0m0.001s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
It appears that 'time' is broken. It would be better if 'which'
reported that 'time' is provided by Bash, similar to Bash's 'type' shell
builtin command:
$ type which
which is hashed (/usr/bin/which)
$ type type
type is a shell builtin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debianutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii sensible-utils 0.0.4 Utilities for sensible
alternative
debianutils recommends no packages.
debianutils suggests no packages.
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