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TIME(1) General Commands Manual TIME(1) NAME time - time a command SYNOPSIS time [-l] command DESCRIPTION The given command is executed; after it is complete, time prints the elapsed time during the command, the time spent in the system, and the time spent in execution of the command. Times are reported in seconds. If the -l option is supplied, the contents of the rusage structure are printed as well. On a PDP-11, the execution time can depend on what kind of memory the program happens to land in; the user time in MOS is often half what it is in core. The times are printed on the diagnostic output stream, ``stderr''. Time is a built-in command to csh(1), with a much different syntax. This command is available as ``/bin/time'' to csh users. BUGS Elapsed time is accurate to the second, while the CPU times are mea- sured to the 100th second. Thus the sum of the CPU times can be up to a second larger than the elapsed time. SEE ALSO include/sys/h/resource.h 4th Berkeley Distribution November 17, 1987 TIME(1)
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