times — Get process and child process times
Format
times [–p]
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