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On 4/30/2009 7:56 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> time is a special case.  It is BOTH a bash reserved word and an external
> command (assuming you've installed the external package).  The difference
> is what syntax you use.

Thanks for the explanation.  My problem, obviously, is that I hadn't 
installed the time package.

Ken

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