Hello,

On Fri, 18 May 2007 14:16:32 -0300
Herbert Georg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to use the command "time" to access information about a job,
> but without success.
> The man page tells me that I can use options to time, like:
> 
> time -o output-file command command-args
> time -v command command-args
> time --help
> 
> but nothing of this works. All I get is (in the last example):
> 
> bash: --help: command not found
> 
> real    0m0.001s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.000s
> 
> I get the same thing in all option cases.
> 
> Why doesn't it accept any option, and keep interpreting the options as
> the commands?

What about this? :-)

> \time --help
Usage: time [-apvV] [-f format] [-o file] [--append] [--verbose]
       [--portability] [--format=format] [--output=file] [--version]
       [--help] command [arg...]


Regards,
eshsf

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