On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 06:37:00PM -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:57:23AM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> >> $ time ./buildports-orig.pl >/dev/null
> >>
> > Just as a note, you are almost always better off running /usr/bin/time
> > explicitly.  This is because time is a shell builtin function (at least
> > in Bash, not sure about other shells), which is inferior to the
> > /usr/bin/time program.
> 
> I hate /usr/bin/time -- the output looks like someone's first program;
> it often takes me longer to parse the output than it does to run the
> program that I'm trying to time.
> 
That can easily be fixed by sending the output through a sed, awk or
perl script. :-)

Regards,

-Roberto

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