/usr/bin/time giving its output in one single line

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I may have a locale problem or something similar, because whenever I run /usr/bin/time it gives me the output as a single line, difficult to interpret :

0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1756maxresident)k

The above comes from echo with no parameters, but it's the case with all commands.

ubuntu-16.04 shell time bash
1 Answers

try to use the 'POSIX' style:

$ /usr/bin/time -p ls

or integrated time in bash/zsh/fish...

$ time ls

or use your style, by creating a var called TIME or in some system called TIMEFORMAT

$ export TIME="%E"
$ /usr/bin/time ls
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