** Changed in: time (Debian)
Status: New = Fix Released
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Title:
hoary: Time sees every argument as a program to run.
To manage
** Changed in: time (Debian)
Status: Unknown = Unconfirmed
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hoary: Time sees every argument as a program to run.
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time is *not* working as documented. This has been reported twice here
on Launchpad and at least once on Debian.
Here's how I got bitten by the bug:
1. I've used time ./program to time single runs before. I wanted to get
memory usage information this time.
2. I executed man time to find out
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #388458
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388458
** Also affects: time (Debian) via
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388458
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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hoary: Time sees every argument as a program
If you want to use the full featured version of time, you need to explicitly
use that one, not the bash builtin.
This is not a bug.
** Changed in: time (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Rejected
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hoary: Time sees every argument as a program to run.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/14172
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But how is the user supposed to know that time is a builtin? Are they
expected to look at the man page, think it's a bug, open the bug
tracking system, and find out that it's a bash builtin? If this bug has
been filed this many times, doesn't it make sense to think that the
documentation is
While technically this can be viewed as not a bug, if enough people
think it's a bug then it should be one. Perception is reality. Who
would want to make the argument that we don't want to fix this and
make it easier to understand by removing the confusion?
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hoary: Time sees every argument
But how is the user supposed to know that time is a builtin?
$ type time
time is a shell keyword
Are they expected to look at the man page?
Extract from the time man page:
Users of the bash shell need to use an explicit path in order to run the
external time command and not the
