Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have found a problem when using the time command. From the man page | -o FILE, --output=FILE | -a, --append | | So the command 'time -a -o log makebzImage' should log the time used | to compile the kernel (in this example) to the file 'log'. What is | does instead is : bash: -a: command not found Then reports the time | when the compile completes. Nothing is appended to the log file.
"time" is also a Bash builtin command. To use the utility you're trying to get at specify the entire path, e.g., on a slink system, /usr/bin/time. Gary