in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Kris Kennaway thusly... > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:00:49AM +0200, P. B. S. wrote:
PBS, Do wrap lines around 69 or so characters to give me no incentive to ignore your mail otherwise. > > "time" doesn't seem to accept any options. The first thing on > > the line after "time" is taken as the utility to execute. I need > > the -l option. Am I misusing "time" or what? > > Your shell (apparently bash) provides a builtin time function. If > you want to use FreeBSD's time(1) binary, call it by absolute path > (/usr/bin/time) Look also in bash(1) man page which states somewhere to use '\' in order to use the real command (as it appears in $PATH of course) and avoid built-in/alias. - Parv -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
