On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
I am trying to get timing paramters from a CGI program. date is just a command for example used here.
when I do: time { date; } everything is good.
when I do: time -o file { date; } I get time -o file { date; } bash: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
How do I correctly issue the command with an option for -o file to output the data to a file.
The man page for time gives the usual information and includes only the -p option, but then, below the 'see also' section which usually signifies the end, it goes on to discuss the 'GNU version' which includes additional options. Apparently, the time command we get with CentOS is not the GNU version because it pukes on all of the stated options. So why is all that info in the man page and where is this elusive GNU version? I checked both C4 and C5 and neither supported the additional options.
Unless somebody else can shed some more light on this, I guess you are stuck with output redirection provided by your chosen shell.