Re: Time Command error in Slink?

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

Wayne Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com> writes:
| I have found a problem when using the time command.  From the man page
| -o FILE, --output=FILE
| -a, --append
| 
| So the command 'time -a -o log makebzImage' should log the time used
| to compile the kernel (in this example) to the file 'log'.  What is
| does instead is : bash: -a: command not found  Then reports the time
| when the compile completes.  Nothing is appended to the log file.

"time" is also a Bash builtin command. To use the utility you're
trying to get at specify the entire path, e.g., on a slink system,
/usr/bin/time.

Gary