From 9ac87e4b580e02b3a3dfcc2bdfd9641631106037 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: des Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:54:05 +0000 Subject: Behave like GNU time. More cleanup. Reword man page. Pointed out by: Bruce Evans --- usr.bin/time/time.1 | 31 +++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'usr.bin/time/time.1') diff --git a/usr.bin/time/time.1 b/usr.bin/time/time.1 index a3f805f..1c8bb77 100644 --- a/usr.bin/time/time.1 +++ b/usr.bin/time/time.1 @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ .Nd time command execution .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm -.Op Fl a Ar file -.Op Fl o Ar file .Op Fl l +.Op Fl a +.Op Fl o Ar file .Ar command .Sh DESCRIPTION The @@ -68,25 +68,25 @@ process. .Pp Available options: .Bl -tag -width Ds -.It Fl a Ar file -Append the output of -.Nm -to -.Ar file -instead of writing to stderr. +.It Fl l +The contents of the +.Em rusage +structure are printed as well. +.It Fl a +If the +.Fl o +flag is used, append to the specified file rather than overwriting +it. Otherwise, this option has no effect. .It Fl o Ar file Write the output to .Ar file instead of stderr. If .Ar file -exists, then -.Nm -will overwrite the file if its permissions allow it. -.It Fl l -The contents of the -.Em rusage -structure are printed as well. +exists and the +.Fl a +flag is not specified, the file will be overwritten. .El +.Sh NOTES .Pp The .Xr csh 1 @@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ is available as to .Xr csh users. -.Sh NOTES The output of .Nm can be directed to standard output by specifying -- cgit v1.1