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+.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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+.\"
+.\" @(#)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 .
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