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hennes

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Registered: 2008-03-31

Posts: 50

[Solved] Passing options to the time command

Hi.

I spent quite some time googling on this but didn't get any further. I'm looking for a way to pass options to the time command. In particular I want to set the format string to modify the output. But all I get is:

[jm@elroy main]$ time -f %e ls -hal
bash: -f: command not found

Can anyone help?

Last edited by hennes (2008-08-26 06:51:49)

Lord Illidan

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From: Malta

Registered: 2007-10-25

Posts: 248

Re: [Solved] Passing options to the time command

You have to install time from the extra repository, and then run it with /usr/bin/time. I guess you could also set up an alias if you want to make the time command run /usr/bin/time instead.

hennes

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Registered: 2008-03-31

Posts: 50

Re: [Solved] Passing options to the time command

Geez, I didn't know there was another time program. Many thanks! Case closed.