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Re: bug with for and time

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From: "Matthias B." <msbREMOVE-THIS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: bug with for and time
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:38:48 +0200
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On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:10:47 +0100 Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> > Zsh 4.0.4 appears to lose the time command in the following,
> > 
> > nathan@garibaldi:363>for i in 1 2 ; time echo
> > 
> > 
> > but, place the command in a subshell, and it works.
> 
> Yes, that's always been an annoying limitation: "time" works by gettings
> system information about subprocesses, and there isn't one in this case.

Then how does bash do it? bash can time builtins just fine.

MSB

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