Description
times displays
user and system times accumulated
by the shell and commands run as children of the shell. Times are
displayed in minutes and seconds. User time is CPU time spent in user
programs. System time is CPU time spent in the operating system on
behalf of the user process.
Options
- –p
- Formats the output in seconds without units. For example, 1 minute
and 3.7 seconds is displayed as:
63.47
Times
are displayed in minutes and seconds. User time is processor time
spent in user programs. System time is processor time spent in the
operating system on behalf of the user process. The output layout
is:
shell user time shell system time
child user time child system time
Usage notes
times is
a built-in shell command.
Localization
times uses
the following localization environment variables:
- LANG
- LC_ALL
- LC_MESSAGES
- NLSPATH
See Localization for more
information.
Exit values
- 0
- Successful completion
- 2
- Failure that resulted in a usage message, usually due to an incorrect
command-line option
Portability
X/Open Portability GuideX/Open Portability Guide.
The –p option
is an extension to the XPG standard.
Related information
sh, time