Time bug (?)

[Christopher Simons]

I don't think this constitutes the title of "bug", but
anyway...

When the "time" command is given with no parameters in
the bash shell (I have done this in redhat9 and
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, so I assume all systems do this),
it spits out:

-bash-2.05b$ time
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

In the traditional Bourne shell, as well as csh, tcsh,
ksh, and zsh, no error is given, although they each
respond differently:

(sh) $ time
$

(csh) %time
0.000u 0.014s 0:01.76 0.5%    2364+1464k 2+0io 0pf+0w

(tcsh) > time
0.000u 0.014s 0:01.14 0.8%    1576+1208k 0+0io 0pf+0w

(ksh) $ time
    0.00s user    0.00s system

(zsh) host% time
shell 0.01s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 3.521 total
children 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 3.521 total

I am more of a desktop-user than a developer, so I
didn't try to figure out whether this problem lied. 
Anyway, I hope this helps.

Christopher Simons

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