Today I struggled with the time command.

I wanted to use it in a bash script, so I checked the man page, where I found interesting stuff :

Ok great. So I wrote my command like this :

hm. Maybe I did something wrong. Let’s try the man page’s example to understand how things work :

wtf??! The example given didn’t work either !
And then

ok… so, searching a little bit further helped me find the explanation :

Your shell (apparently bash) provides a builtin time function. If you want to use time binary, call it by absolute path (/usr/bin/time)

let’s try :

Finally! It was just a silly thing…

Just remember, when using the bash time, get the time in minutes/seconds:

and in seconds only :

😀