Re: Time error

[Didde Brockman <didde.brockman@starring.se>]

Actually, even on OS X "time" says: "-bash: syntax error near 
unexpected token `newline`", so this makes me think it is normal 
procedure when not supplying "time" with an argument (command).

As stated earlier, the command Robert is looking for is probably "date".


//d.

On 16 jan 2005, at 19.13, William Ballard wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:08:38PM +0200, Alexandros Papadopoulos 
> wrote:
> > You're probably looking for the date(1) command.
>
> No, he's wondering why his time command or his bash command or both is
> broken -- and should look at bug reports.