Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:57:23AM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>> $ time ./buildports-orig.pl >/dev/null
>>
> Just as a note, you are almost always better off running /usr/bin/time
> explicitly.  This is because time is a shell builtin function (at least
> in Bash, not sure about other shells), which is inferior to the
> /usr/bin/time program.

I hate /usr/bin/time -- the output looks like someone's first program;
it often takes me longer to parse the output than it does to run the
program that I'm trying to time.

-Tom
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