On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:41:44PM +0200, m l wrote: > > 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? Bash uses its own internal time command, so it gives an error when you don't pass the comand to be executed to time. You can get bash's time help with: 1. man bash 2. help time System's time is also available by specifying its full path: /usr/bin/time cmd Regards, Luciano Rocha
