I've just switched to zsh. However, I really don't like how the time builtin command also outputs the command that it's timing. I much prefer the bash style output. Anyone know how to switch it over?

Zsh:

[casqa1:~/temp]$ time grep foo /dev/null
/usr/local/gnu/bin/grep --color -i foo /dev/null  0.00s user 0.00s system 53% cpu 0.004 total

Bash:

[casqa1:~/temp]$ bash
casqa1.nyc:~/temp> time grep foo /dev/null

real        0.0
user        0.0
sys         0.0

Thanks,

/YGA

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This is fairly close:

$ TIMEFMT=$'\nreal\t%E\nuser\t%U\nsys\t%S'

$ time sleep 1

real    1.01s
user    0.00s
sys     0.00s
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thanks - beautiful! – YGA Nov 18 '09 at 18:34
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