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Re: Bash problem


2009/4/30 Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>:
> A build script I was running failed because it had a command of the form
> 'eval foo=bar time <command>'. ÂHere's a simple test case:
>
> $ eval foo=bar time true
> -bash: time: command not found
>
> It works fine without foo=bar:
>
> $ eval time true
>
> real  Â0m0.060s
> user  Â0m0.000s
> sys   0m0.000s
>
> I have access to a linux system in which the original command (with foo=bar)
> works. ÂThat system has an older version of bash. ÂIs this a bug in the
> current bash? ÂOr the cygwin build of bash?
>
> Ken
>
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Hi there. I'm using

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 sith 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin

and

$ cygcheck -c time bash
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
bash                 3.2.48-21      OK
time                  1.7-2          OK


testing your example gives me

$ eval foo=bar time true
0.03user 0.03system 0:00.06elapsed 91%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 205568maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (811major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps



Maybe your using

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