NAME

times — write process times

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

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 IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”), xbd_chap13(7)) as returned by times(3): tms_utime, tms_stime, tms_cutime, and tms_cstime, respectively.

OPTIONS

None.

OPERANDS

None.

STDIN

Not used.

INPUT FILES

None.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

None.

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS

Default.

STDOUT

See the DESCRIPTION.

STDERR

The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

OUTPUT FILES

None.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

None.

EXIT STATUS

Zero.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS

Default.

The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

EXAMPLES

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

RATIONALE

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

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

xcu_chap02(1)

CHANGE HISTORY

Issue 6

IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”)/Cor 1-2002, item XCU/TC1/D6/9 is applied, changing text in the DESCRIPTION from: ``Write the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for all of its child processes ...'' to: ``The times utility shall write the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for all of its child processes ...''.

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