On 10/10/18 6:52 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chet Ramey wrote: >> b...@feusi.co wrote: >>> 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" > > That would work if you installed the GNU time package.
Maybe. Maybe not. It depends on $PATH. It's unlikely that his system does not already have a `time' command, so if it's not found, it must not be in $PATH. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/