On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:30:13 +0100, in linux.debian.user you wrote: <snip> > >Regardless, "time" on its own should yield something like: > >$ time >real 0m0.000s >user 0m0.000s >sys 0m0.000s > <snip> It doesn't. beretta@chiana:~$ time bash: syntax error near unexpected token `time' beretta@chiana:~$ uname -a Linux chiana 2.6.10-Debian #1 Sun Dec 26 23:59:35 PST 2004 i686