BINGO!! That's the problem. I'm modifying my process to use full path. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/17 Björn Gustafsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bg-ale@bjorng.net">bg-ale@bjorng.net</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The "time" command is a useful tool<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> What is being called when I exclude the full path? A locate produced lots of<br>
> stuff with "time" in the name but only the /usr/bin/time was an executable.<br>
<br>
</div>bash -c 'which time'<br>
/usr/bin/time<br>
<br>
bash -ic 'which time'<br>
time is a shell keyword<br>
<br>
The `time' that is vexing you is a shell keyword similar to `while',<br>
the difference being that it's only implemented for interactive shells<br>
in bash. Technically it is not considered a shell builtin, but<br>
functionally that's what it amounts to.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Björn Gustafsson<br>
<br>
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