From 46439007cf417cbd9ac8049bb4122c890097a0fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Charles.Forsyth" Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:52:35 +0000 Subject: 20060303-partial --- man/1/time | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/1/time (limited to 'man/1/time') diff --git a/man/1/time b/man/1/time new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5c1f3099 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/1/time @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +.TH TIME 1 +.SH NAME +time \- time command execution +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B time +.I command +[ +.I arg ... +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Time +executes the +.I 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 +.I time +itself to load +.IR command ; +loads done later by the command are included in the real time. +To time a pipeline, use the +.B -c +option to +.IR sh (1): +.IP +.B "time sh -c 'ps | grep Sh'" +.SH SOURCE +.B /appl/cmd/time.b +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR sh (1), +.IR sys-millisec (2) +.SH BUGS +There is no way to measure CPU time (real or virtual) used by a command. -- cgit v1.2.3