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diff --git a/usr.bin/time/time.1 b/usr.bin/time/time.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f68c6f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/time/time.1 @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)time.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 +.\" +.Dd June 6, 1993 +.Dt TIME 1 +.Os BSD 4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm time +.Nd time command execution +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm time +.Op Fl l +.Ar command +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm time +utility +executes and +times +.Ar command +by initiating a timer and passing the +.Ar command +to the +shell. +After the +.Ar command +finishes, +.Nm time +writes to the standard error stream, +(in seconds): +the total time elapsed, +time consumed by system overhead, +and the time used to execute the +.Ar command +process. +.Pp +Available options: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl l +The contents of the +.Em rusage +structure are printed as well. +.El +.Pp +The +.Xr csh 1 +has its own and syntactically different builtin version of +.Nm time. +The command described here +is available as +.Pa /usr/bin/time +to +.Xr csh +users. +.Sh BUGS +The granularity of seconds on micro processors is crude and +can result in times being reported for CPU usage which are too large by +a second. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr csh 1 +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /usr/include/sys/h/resource.h -compact +.It Pa /usr/include/sys/h/resource.h +.El +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm +command appeared in +.At v6 . |