bug in time?

Wayne Steenburg w.steenburg at myactv.net
Sat Feb 7 21:50:25 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 16:41, m l wrote:
> hiya,
> while running bash shell  :
> 
> [feenixxi at sandbox]$ time
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
> 
> [feenixxi at sandbox ]$ time --help
> bash: --help: command not found
> 
> real    0m0.001s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.001s
> 
> time command works fine in both tcsh and csh, what's wrong with bash?
> 
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Try man time for proper usage instructions






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