@tastapod @Cykelero /bin/sh on FreeBSD doesn’t do that....

@tastapod @Cykelero /bin/sh on FreeBSD doesn’t do that. If we can believe the man page that version of the Bourne shell is with us since 1989

/bin/sh
$ SECONDS=3
$
$ for i in $(seq 1 10); do
> echo $SECONDS
> sleep 1
> done
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3

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@grumpyoldtechie @Cykelero yep, it’s a bash-ism. Nothing to do with posix Bourne shell. Not sure about ksh.

26 July at 14:29 | Open on mas.to

@grumpyoldtechie @Cykelero looks like ksh also has SECONDS but theirs is more sensible, which is generally true of ksh vs bash in my experience:

26 July at 22:28 | Open on mas.to

@grumpyoldtechie @Cykelero I love that you didn’t trust the first few!

26 July at 14:30 | Open on mas.to