On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:13:30PM -0800, Beretta wrote: > beretta@chiana:~$ time > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `time' For me typing "time" with no arguments produces: real 0m0.000s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s Something about your Bash is misconfigured or you have a buggy version.