TIMES(1P)                                           POSIX Programmer's Manual                                          TIMES(1P)



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NAME
       times - write process times

SYNOPSIS
       times

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  Defini-
       tions  volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Chapter 13, Headers) as returned by times(): 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
       Special Built-In Utilities

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003  Edition,  Standard  for
       Information  Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copy-
       right (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any
       discrepancy  between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group
       Standard  is  the  referee   document.   The   original   Standard   can   be   obtained   online   at   http://www.open-
       group.org/unix/online.html .



IEEE/The Open Group                                           2003                                                     TIMES(1P)