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Re: SIGSTOP and bash's time built-in


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: SIGSTOP and bash's time built-in
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:00:10 -0400
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On 10/30/15 12:50 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 26 Oct 2015 16:59, Stefan Tauner wrote:
>> I was creating some exercises for my students when I noticed very
>> strange behavior of the time built-in when sending SIGSTOP to a timed
>> command interactively (via ^Z):
> 
> you could always install the dedicated time program and then do:
> $ /usr/bin/time sleep 5
> 
> that'll handle ^Z and such

It's probably already installed, and \time will work to invoke it.

Chet
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