On 2/11/19 4:18 PM, david wrote: > At 01:06 PM 2/11/2019, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I can't seem to get the verbose mode of time working. I am trying >> to compare the compute cost of sha256-crypt to sha512-crypt: >> >> time doveadm pw -s sha256-crypt -p secret >> >> real   0m0.128s >> user   0m0.081s >> sys    0m0.040s >> >> time doveadm pw -s sha512-crypt -p secret >> >> real   0m0.162s >> user   0m0.105s >> sys    0m0.047s >> >> But all attempts to add --verbose fail: >> >> time --verbose doveadm pw -s sha512-crypt -p secret >> -bash: --verbose: command not found >> >> Googling gives different recommendations, none work for me. > > > To quote from linux.die.net/man/1/time > > Note: some shells (e.g., <https://linux.die.net/man/1/bash>bash(1)) > have a built-in time command that provides less functionality than the > command described here. To access the real command, you may need to > specify its pathname (something like /usr/bin/time). > > Could it be you've encountered this? I had to install the real time command to do this. thanks