Re: Time Command error in Slink?

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

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.
> 
> the man page example: 
> 
> The man page example: time -f "%E real,%U user,%S sys" ls -Fs
> returns: 
> bash: -f: command not found
> 
> real    0m0.015s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.020s
> 
> My question is, is this a problem version of bash I have installed, 
> or is the time program slink installs just not working as advertised? 
> 
> bash -version
> GNU bash, version 2.01.1(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
> 
> %uname -a
> Linux mtntop 2.2.6 #21 Thu Apr 22 14:03:47 EDT 1999 i686 unknown
> 
> Could someone running Potato with bash 2.02.1-1.3, see if the same
> thing happens there?

     I'm running potato with bash 2.02.1-1.4 and time 1.7-4.
I get the same result you do.  I tried substituting --format for -f,
and got essentially the same result:
 
bob:vc-p1:bob>time --format "%E real,%U user,%S sys" ls -Fs
bash: --format: command not found

real    0m0.010s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

Bob
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