On 3/8/16 6:04 AM, Isabella Parakiss wrote:
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> This seems to be a related problem:
> $ time (exec true) # doesn't print anything
Timing is an attribute associated with a command. In this case, that's the
simple command (`exec true') that is run in a subshell. When that command
is executed, the shell that is started to run the subshell and print the
timing statistics is overwritten by the `exec true'.
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