/usr/bin/time

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Wed Mar 8 03:19:20 UTC 2006


On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:08:38PM -0500, Mark Wade wrote:
> What is different invoking time as /usr/bin/time or time and is that 
> true of other commands also?

time is a built-in for bash.  bash has other built-ins as well, for
example, echo, cd, and a bunch of others.

info bash
and go to section 4.2 for the Builtins.

        .../Ed


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