Bug 49482

Summary:	time does not take arguments
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Dmitri A. Sergatskov <dasergatskov>
Component:	bash	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	koen.hillewaert, rvokal
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Description Dmitri A. Sergatskov 2001-07-20 00:17:19 UTC

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Description of problem:
time does not take any arguments e.g.:
[dima@cholla dima]$ time --version
bash: --version: command not found

real    0m0.002s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install time-1.7-13.rpm
2. run 'time --version'
3. see error message
	

Actual Results:  On RH7.1
[dima@cholla dima]$ time --version
bash: --version: command not found

real    0m0.002s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s
[dima@cholla dima]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/time
time-1.7-13


Expected Results:  On RH6.2 system:
[root@sage /root]# time --version
GNU time 1.7
[root@sage /root]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/time 
time-1.7-9
[root@sage /root]# 

Additional info:

pretty much stock rh7.1 with all recent updates.

Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2001-07-21 07:22:57 UTC

you are starting the bash builtin version of time. I am not sure if the
absence of --version is a bug or not..

Florian La Roche

Comment 2 Koen Hillewaert 2001-07-27 14:22:31 UTC

the same is true for the tcsh version. time does not take any options at all.
Even (at least some of) the examples cited in the info pages do not execute.

Comment 3 Phil Knirsch 2002-07-23 12:16:59 UTC

Well, time is a reserved keyword in bash and additionally an internal command,
so if you want to use the binary /usr/bin/time you need to say so.

Read ya, Phil