severity 511456 wishlist
tags 511456 + moreinfo
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Hi Bart,
Sorry for the long silence.
Bart Massey wrote:
> GNU "time" has a --portability flag to get the
> POSIX-mandated formatting of its output. The BASH "time"
> builtin is used in /bin/sh invocations and is
> POSIX-compliant. The combination of these features means
> that it is difficult to write portable shell scripts that
> examine the output of "time" but work under Debian.
Why can't you use "time -p" unconditionally?
POSIX has this to say[1]:
-p
Write the timing output to standard error in the
format shown in the STDERR section.
so I think it should be reliable.
[1]
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/time.html#tag_20_129_04
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