Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 08:15:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/38985: time doesn't recognize its command-line options Message-ID: <200206071515.g57FFdDC014395@www.freebsd.org>
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>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
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