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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 02:16:12 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, thepish@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        ac199@hwcn.org, bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.freebsd.dk
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/time time.1 time.c
Message-ID:  <199807271616.CAA22431@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Nonetheless, the patch is a kludge and the wording of the man page is
>clumsy at best. I'm working on correcting this (and changing the -f
>option to -o, which others have pointed out as the Right Thing)

Don't forget -a.  In gnu time, it's just a flag that modifies -o.  Multiple
multiple -o's and -a's after -o's are permitted:

	time -o foo -a ls	# -a modifies -o despite being later
	time -o foo -o bar ls	# -o foo is ignored

Bruce



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