time.1 (795B)
1 .Dd October 8, 2015 2 .Dt TIME 1 3 .Os sbase 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm time 6 .Nd time a command 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl p 10 .Ar cmd 11 .Op Ar arg ... 12 .Sh DESCRIPTION 13 .Nm 14 executes 15 .Ar cmd 16 and writes timing statistics to stderr after it finishes. 17 The statistics include the elapsed real time 18 between invocation and termination and the user 19 and system CPU time (see 20 .Xr times 2 ) . 21 .Sh OPTIONS 22 .Bl -tag -width Ds 23 .It Fl p 24 Use the format "real %f\enuser %f\ensys %f\en" for printing. 25 This is the default. 26 .El 27 .Sh EXIT STATUS 28 .Bl -tag -width Ds 29 .It 0 30 .Ar cmd 31 executed successfully. 32 .It 1 33 Internal error. 34 .It 126 35 .Ar cmd 36 was found but could not be executed. 37 .It 127 38 .Ar cmd 39 could not be found. 40 .El 41 .Sh SEE ALSO 42 .Xr times 2 , 43 .Xr waitpid 2 44 .Sh STANDARDS 45 The 46 .Nm 47 utility is compliant with the 48 .St -p1003.1-2013 49 specification.