NAME
- time - time command execution
SYNOPSIS
- time command [ arg ... ]
DESCRIPTION
-
Time
executes the
command
with the given arguments, and reports on standard error the command's
load time, real time for execution, and the total, in seconds.
The load time
is just the time for
time
itself to load
command;
loads done later by the command are included in the real time.
To time a pipeline, use the
-c
option to
sh(1):
- time sh -c 'ps | grep Sh'
SOURCE
- /appl/cmd/time.b
SEE ALSO
- sh(1), sys-millisec(2)
BUGS
- There is no way to measure CPU time (real or virtual) used by a command.
| TIME(1) | Rev: Tue Jan 29 13:11:30 GMT 2008 |