Library: GNU bash Command Reference (Darwin 9.0): time

Library: GNU bash Command Reference (Darwin 9.0)

time

time: time [-p] PIPELINE

Execute PIPELINE and print a summary of the real time, user CPU time,
and system CPU time spent executing PIPELINE when it terminates.
The return status is the return status of PIPELINE.  The `-p' option
prints the timing summary in a slightly different format.  This uses
the value of the TIMEFORMAT variable as the output format.
times: times
Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from
the shell.

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