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Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/time time.1 time.c



Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/time         time.1 time.c 
>   Log:
>   By default, /usr/bin/time writes its output to stderr.  Two options
>   have been added to time(1) to write output to an alternative destination.
>   Option "-f filename" will write to filename, and filename can be - to
>   write to stdout.  Option "-a filename" will append the output to filename.
>   Time(1) man page has been updated to reflect the change.

What? Didn't you read the audit trail? There's absolutely no reason to
add these options; output redirection does all that and more. This is
just clutter.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@xxxxxxxxxx