This was driving me crazy until I found the above explanation. Well
hidden indeed!
I stuck the following in my .bashrc for convenience:
alias time=$(which time)
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'time' does not recognise any options
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220512
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Thanks for the bug report. I was about to confirm this but... There is a
built-in command in bash with the same name, so you have to call
/usr/bin/time explicitly.
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'time' does not recognise any options
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Dayum that was well hidden! :)
I wonder whether something should be done about it... whether anything
CAN be done about it. Maybe a warning in the man page or something.
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'time' does not recognise any options
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Actually it's already in the man page: Users of the bash shell need to
use an explicit path in order to run the external time command and not
the shell builtin variant. I think you can mark this bug as invalid.
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'time' does not recognise any options
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220512
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** Changed in: time (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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