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From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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A build script I was running failed because it had a command of the form 
'eval foo=bar time <command>'.  Here'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    0m0.060s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

I have access to a linux system in which the original command (with 
foo=bar) works.  That system has an older version of bash.  Is this a 
bug in the current bash?  Or the cygwin build of bash?

Ken


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