On 10/10/18 7:42 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm not exactly sure if the following is actually a bug or whether bash
> is actually supposed to behave like this. However, I couldn't find any
> documentation concerning it so I decided to ask.
>
> The thing I noticed is that when setting a variable and then running the
> command "time", bash reports "command not found". For example, the
> command:
>
> TEST=1 time ls
>
> Results in "bash: time: command not found"
You don't have a command named `time' in a directory in your $PATH.
Bash doesn't have a `time' builtin; it has a `time' reserved word.
Preceding `time' with a variable assignment removes its special meaning
and causes it to not be recognized as a reserved word.
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