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$ which time time: shell reserved word $ ls /usr/bin/time /bin/time ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/time': No such file or directory ls: cannot acce

$ which time time: shell reserved word $ ls /usr/bin/time /bin/time ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/time': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '/bin/time': No such file or directory Looks like something specific to the author's distribution.

myrandomcomment 10y ago
He is on MacOS.
- pmontra 10y ago
  It's time -l on BSD derivatives and time -v on GNU userlands.
ams6110 10y ago
It's a BSD thing.
- ramshorns 10y ago
  There's a GNU time as well, but it appears not to always be installed by default.
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    Yep. GNU source: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/time.git/tree/ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/time.git/tree/ BSD source: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/f5d95e1f8d32db4ccccfd5ad9cecb21ed07a695d/usr.bin/time/time.c https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/f5d95e1f8d32db4ccccf... Busybox source: https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/f88e3bfa8ded4f1c7e7d2143a1cfcbbdfe5e8541/miscutils/time.c https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/f88e3bfa8ded4f1c7e7d2... Toybox source: https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/posix/time.c https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/posix/tim... This would have been a lot easier if I'd known GitHub has a `filename:` search
kylek 10y ago
Exists on a debian(/testing?) system I've: $ time ls / bin boot dev etc home lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var real 0m0.004s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s $ /usr/bin/time ls / bin boot dev etc home lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2304maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+109minor)pagefaults 0swaps Edit: formatting
- kevinoid 10y ago
  Sometimes. It depends whether you have the time[1] package installed. 1. https://packages.debian.org/sid/time https://packages.debian.org/sid/time
dredmorbius 10y ago
On my Android system with Termux installed, the system 'time' is the Busybox implementation, so yes, YMMV. Which gives new meaning to the relativity and vagueries of time....

myrandomcomment 10y ago

He is on MacOS.

pmontra 10y ago
It's time -l on BSD derivatives and time -v on GNU userlands.

ams6110 10y ago

It's a BSD thing.

ramshorns 10y ago
There's a GNU time as well, but it appears not to always be installed by default.
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  Yep. GNU source: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/time.git/tree/ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/time.git/tree/ BSD source: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/f5d95e1f8d32db4ccccfd5ad9cecb21ed07a695d/usr.bin/time/time.c https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/f5d95e1f8d32db4ccccf... Busybox source: https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/f88e3bfa8ded4f1c7e7d2143a1cfcbbdfe5e8541/miscutils/time.c https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/f88e3bfa8ded4f1c7e7d2... Toybox source: https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/posix/time.c https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/posix/tim... This would have been a lot easier if I'd known GitHub has a `filename:` search

kylek 10y ago

Exists on a debian(/testing?) system I've: $ time ls / bin boot dev etc home lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var real 0m0.004s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s $ /usr/bin/time ls / bin boot dev etc home lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2304maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+109minor)pagefaults 0swaps Edit: formatting

kevinoid 10y ago
Sometimes. It depends whether you have the time[1] package installed. 1. https://packages.debian.org/sid/time https://packages.debian.org/sid/time

dredmorbius 10y ago

On my Android system with Termux installed, the system 'time' is the Busybox implementation, so yes, YMMV. Which gives new meaning to the relativity and vagueries of time....