times - Man Page

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times

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 POSIX.1-2017, Chapter 13, Headers) as returned by times(): tms_utime, tms_stime, tms_cutime, and tms_cstime, respectively.

None.

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Not used.

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Default.

See the Description.

The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

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0

Successful completion.

>0

An error occurred.

Default.

The following sections are informative.

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

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

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Section 2.14, Special Built-In Utilities

The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2017, <sys_times.h>

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 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 .

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