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

I'm pretty sure this is wrong.

As an example :

sleep 2 | /usr/bin/time sleep 1

This gives an output of "1 second" even though the entire pipeline took 2 seconds.

fnord123 on March 7, 2017 [–]

Ok you can wangle your way out of it. But if you're doing something like `grep "$something" | /usr/bin/time some_job` then generally you're fine.

perennate on March 7, 2017 | [–]

Wouldn't the system/user time be wrong though?

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