Am Sa, den 07.02.2004 schrieb m l um 22:41: > hiya, > while running bash shell : > > [feenixxi@sandbox]$ time > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' > > [feenixxi@sandbox ]$ time --help > bash: --help: command not found > > real 0m0.001s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.001s > > time command works fine in both tcsh and csh, what's wrong with bash? No bug, read "man time". The correct syntax is "time command", like: $ time locate foo.bar real 0m0.179s user 0m0.110s sys 0m0.020s Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl Sirendipity 22:54:59 up 7 days, 21:55, load average: 0.06, 0.18, 0.14 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]