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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) 'time' does NOT work on a function in 'dash'. Post 303003311 by drl on Tuesday 12th of September 2017 08:17:53 AM
Old 09-12-2017
Hi.

This seems to be not time-critical, so you could write a nonce-script, like so on file z7:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env dash
#!/usr/local/bin/dash

cat >delay.sh  <<EOF
#!/usr/bin/env dash
delayme()
{
        echo "Sleep for 2 second."
        sleep 2
}
delayme
EOF
chmod +x delay.sh

echo "Test the function."
# delayme
./delay.sh

echo "Test the timer."
# time ./delayme
time ./delay.sh

echo ""
echo "Test a real command."
time sleep 1

producing:
Code:
$ ./z7
Test the function.
Sleep for 2 second.
Test the timer.
Sleep for 2 second.
        2.01 real         0.00 user         0.00 sys

Test a real command.
        1.01 real         0.00 user         0.00 sys

On a system like:
Code:
OS, ker|rel, machine: Apple/BSD, Darwin 16.7.0, x86_64
Distribution        : macOS 10.12.6 (16G29), Sierra
dash - ( local: /usr/local/bin/dash, 2017-09-12 )

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
 

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BZEXE(1)						      General Commands Manual							  BZEXE(1)

NAME

       bzexe - compress executable files in place

SYNOPSIS

       bzexe [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  bzexe  utility  allows you to compress executables in place and have them automatically uncompress and execute when you run them (at a
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