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7171u on March 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: /usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know

I had to use "--verbose" instead of "-l" in my RHEL7

  \time --verbose  echo

aij on March 7, 2017 | [–]

I bet you're using GNU time rather than BSD time.

It did seem odd to me that the author didn't bother to mention which OS he is using, though from the hostname I have a pretty good guess.

lucb1e on March 7, 2017 | | [–]

Same on Debian Stretch

ffjffsfr on March 7, 2017 | [–]

same on my ubuntu

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