Bug 38985
| Summary: | time doesn't recognize its command-line options | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Chris Pepper <pepper> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Giorgos Keramidas <keramida> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Chris Pepper wrote:
>>Number: 38985
>>Category: docs
>>Synopsis: time doesn't recognize its command-line options
>>Confidential: no
>>Severity: non-critical
>>Priority: medium
>>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>>State: open
>>Quarter:
>>Keywords:
>>Date-Required:
>>Class: doc-bug
>>Submitter-Id: current-users
>>Arrival-Date: Fri Jun 07 08:20:02 PDT 2002
>>Closed-Date:
>>Last-Modified:
>>Originator: Chris Pepper
>>Release: 4.6RC
>>Organization:
>>Environment:
>>
> FreeBSD guest.reppep.com 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #0: Fri May 31 22:33:23 EDT 2002 root@guest.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
>
>>Description:
>>
> time's man page says it provides various flags, including -h (human-readable) and -p (POSIX-style), but these flags generate errors when used.
>
> guest# man time
> TIME(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual TIME(1)
>
> NAME
> time - time command execution
>
> SYNOPSIS
> time [-al] [-h | -p] [-o file] command
>
> DESCRIPTION
> The time utility executes and times command by initiating a timer and
> passing the command to the shell. After the command finishes, time
> writes to the standard error stream, (in seconds): the total time
> elapsed, the time used to execute the command process and the time con-
> sumed by system overhead.
>
> Available options:
>
> -a If the -o flag is used, append to the specified file rather than
> overwriting it. Otherwise, this option has no effect.
>
> -h Print times in a human friendly format. Times are printed in
> minutes, hours, etc. as appropiate.
>
> -l The contents of the rusage structure are printed as well.
>
> -o file
>
>
>>How-To-Repeat:
>>
> guest# time -h ls
> -h: Command not found.
> 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> guest# time -p ls
> -p: Command not found.
> 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> guest# time -l ls
> -l: Command not found.
> 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>
>
echo $SHELL
man 1 builtin
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Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes
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On 2002-06-07 09:16 -0700, Ross Lippert wrote: > > >Sounds like you're using the shell built-in version of time... > >try doing > > which time > >to see which one you're using. /usr/bin/time supports the flags > >you mentioned! > > HAHA!! not so fast there buddy. > > bash-2.05a$ which time > /usr/bin/time > bash-2.05a$ time date > Fri Jun 7 12:11:08 EDT 2002 > > real 0m0.003s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.001s > bash-2.05a$ /usr/bin/time date > Fri Jun 7 12:11:12 EDT 2002 > 0.00 real 0.00 user 0.00 sys The bash shell doesn't have a "which" builtin. Try "type": 03:10:55 [charon@labs ~]$ type which which is /usr/bin/which 03:10:57 [charon@labs ~]$ echo $SHELL /bin/bash 03:11:00 [charon@labs ~]$ which time /usr/bin/time 03:11:03 [charon@labs ~]$ type time time is a shell keyword - Giorgos State Changed From-To: open->closed There's nothing really wrong with time(1). It describes /usr/bin/time which is different from Bourne shell's `time' builtin. Nevertheless, thankie for trying to help with making FreeBSD a better OS than it already is for all of us ;) Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida |
time's man page says it provides various flags, including -h (human-readable) and -p (POSIX-style), but these flags generate errors when used. guest# man time TIME(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual TIME(1) NAME time - time command execution SYNOPSIS time [-al] [-h | -p] [-o file] command DESCRIPTION The time utility executes and times command by initiating a timer and passing the command to the shell. After the command finishes, time writes to the standard error stream, (in seconds): the total time elapsed, the time used to execute the command process and the time con- sumed by system overhead. Available options: -a If the -o flag is used, append to the specified file rather than overwriting it. Otherwise, this option has no effect. -h Print times in a human friendly format. Times are printed in minutes, hours, etc. as appropiate. -l The contents of the rusage structure are printed as well. -o file How-To-Repeat: guest# time -h ls -h: Command not found. 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w guest# time -p ls -p: Command not found. 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w guest# time -l ls -l: Command not found. 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w