Re: Problem with time command

[Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>]

On 06/04/11 02:40, Fabio Dellacorte wrote:
> Hello everybody ,
> i want use option for time command but it doesn't work because
> �intepreted anything as argument :
> 
> 
> $time --version
> bash: --version: command not found
> 
> 
> Thank you
> 


Time *requires* a command before any arguments - hence your error message
So "time --version" will not return the version information for the
"time" command, but:-
time mlocate --version
will return the version information for *mlocate* and tell you how long
it took to do that. eg:-

scott@work:~$ time mlocate --version
mlocate 0.21.1
Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software is distributed under the GPL v.2.

This program is provided with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

real    0m0.029s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

from the man file:-
"time  run  the program COMMAND with any given arguments"

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