On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:00:37 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> 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...]
Escaping the command seems to do the same trick:
sm01@stt008:~$ \time --help
Usage: time [-apvV] [-f format] [-o file] [--append] [--verbose]
[--portability] [--format=format] [--output=file] [--version]
[--quiet] [--help] command [arg...]
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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