TIMEFORMAT prob

JasonL · July 5th, 2005, 11:53 AM

i have had a problems with the "TIMEFORMAT="" time copy_stdio" i'm using Fedora Core 4 (with all updates) but this will not work. the output i get is:

Code:

TIMEFORMAT="" time copy_stdio
time: cannot run copy_stdio: No such file or directory
Command exited with non-zero status 127
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed ?%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+59minor)pagefaults 0swaps

what should i do to get this to work?

ciderpunx · July 15th, 2005, 07:25 AM

This is from the commandline? Are you using BASH as your shell?

It looks like you're running the time command with copy_stdio as a parameter, which wouldn't work unless you had a script called copy_stdio in your path.

Take a look at "man time" for more.

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JasonL · July 15th, 2005, 10:29 AM

well i was logged in as root when i tried it and hade the program copy_stdio in the current folder /root/