Man Linux: Main Page and Category List

NAME

       times - write process times

SYNOPSIS

       times

DESCRIPTION

       The times utility shall write the accumulated user and system times for
       the shell and for all of its child processes, in  the  following  POSIX
       locale format:

              "%dm%fs %dm%fs\n%dm%fs %dm%fs\n", <shell user minutes>,
                  <shell user seconds>, <shell system minutes>,
                  <shell system seconds>, <children user minutes>,
                  <children user seconds>, <children system minutes>,
                  <children system seconds>

       The  four  pairs  of  times  shall  correspond  to  the  members of the
       <sys/times.h> tms structure (defined in the Base Definitions volume  of
       IEEE Std 1003.1-2001,  Chapter  13,  Headers)  as  returned by times():
       tms_utime, tms_stime, tms_cutime, and tms_cstime, respectively.

OPTIONS

       None.

OPERANDS

       None.

STDIN

       Not used.

INPUT FILES

       None.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       None.

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS

       Default.

STDOUT

       See the DESCRIPTION.

STDERR

       The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

OUTPUT FILES

       None.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

       None.

EXIT STATUS

       Zero.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS

       Default.

       The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE

       None.

EXAMPLES

              $ times
              0m0.43s 0m1.11s
              8m44.18s 1m43.23s

RATIONALE

       The times special built-in from the Single UNIX  Specification  is  now
       required for all conforming shells.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       None.

SEE ALSO

       Special Built-In Utilities

COPYRIGHT

       Portions  of  this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
       --  Portable  Operating  System  Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
       Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003  by  the  Institute  of
       Electrical  and  Electronics  Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the
       event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and
       The  Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard
       is the referee document. The original Standard can be  obtained  online
       at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .