Weird with time command verbose option

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 14:02:43 UTC 2025


Hey there,

Oliver Grawert wrote:

>$ help time
[SNIP]
>So you can see the builtin time only knows one option and it will
>interpret "--verbose" as the "pipeline" (i.e. the command), which
>then causes the error you get ...

This is just fascinating.

And now, to go even more deeply down the rabbit-hole, check out the
result of this command that opens the man page for Bash built-ins:

man bash-builtins

Interestingly, the time command is missing from its list of Bash
built-ins. I can't help but wonder what else might be missing.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.



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