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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/4v2] test-lib: provide lazy TIME_COMMAND prereq
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:28:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <507DA749.30509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2mwzmxtyb.fsf@igel.home>

Hi Andreas.  I hope you don't mind my nitpickiness, but ...

On 10/16/2012 06:28 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> Some test want to use the time command (not the shell builtin) and test
>> for its availability at /usr/bin/time.
> 
> An alternative way to suppress the builtin meaning is to quote it, like
> \time.
>
... to be 100% precise, this quoting trick works because 'time' is a
shell keyword, rather than a builtin:

    $ type time
    time is a shell keyword

Regards,
  Stefano

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-16 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-15 10:56 t3302-notes-index-expensive.sh and t3419-rebase-patch-id.sh need time in /usr/bin Joachim Schmitz
2012-10-16 11:39 ` [PATCH 0/4] Allow different time commands Michael J Gruber
2012-10-16 11:39   ` [PATCH 1/4] t3419-rebase-patch-id: heed USR_BIN_TIME prereq Michael J Gruber
2012-10-16 16:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-16 11:39   ` [PATCH 2/4] test-lib: allow variable export from lazy prereq tests Michael J Gruber
2012-10-16 16:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-16 11:39   ` [RFC/PATCH 3/4] test-lib: provide lazy TIME_COMMAND prereq Michael J Gruber
2012-10-16 14:13     ` Joachim Schmitz
2012-10-16 15:06       ` Michael J Gruber
2012-10-16 15:11         ` Joachim Schmitz
2012-10-16 15:07       ` [RFC/PATCH 3/4v2] " Michael J Gruber
2012-10-16 16:28         ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-16 18:28           ` Stefano Lattarini [this message]
2012-10-16 19:21         ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-16 19:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-16 16:41     ` [RFC/PATCH 3/4] " Junio C Hamano
2012-10-16 11:39   ` [PATCH 4/4] t3302,t3419: use the " Michael J Gruber

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