/usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know

Re:/usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know by sigjuice on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @10:31AM (#13811048)

t\ime is rather surprising. Is there any documentation or explanation on why it does what it does?

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Re:/usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know by yrro on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @06:42PM (#13816381)

I think it's because using the backslash to escape counts as quoting. So the following are all equivalent:

  $ \time foo
  $ t\ime foo
  $ 'time' foo

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