1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14.\" without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" @(#)time.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 29.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd May 14, 2006 32.Dt TIME 1 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm time 36.Nd time command execution 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl al 40.Op Fl h | Fl p 41.Op Fl o Ar file 42.Ar utility Op Ar argument ... 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility 47executes and 48times the specified 49.Ar utility . 50After the 51.Ar utility 52finishes, 53.Nm 54writes to the standard error stream, 55(in seconds): 56the total time elapsed, 57the time used to execute the 58.Ar utility 59process and the time consumed by system overhead. 60.Pp 61The following options are available: 62.Bl -tag -width indent 63.It Fl a 64If the 65.Fl o 66flag is used, append to the specified file rather than overwriting 67it. 68Otherwise, this option has no effect. 69.It Fl h 70Print times in a human friendly format. 71Times are printed in minutes, hours, 72etc.\& as appropriate. 73.It Fl l 74The contents of the 75.Em rusage 76structure are printed as well. 77.It Fl o Ar file 78Write the output to 79.Ar file 80instead of stderr. 81If 82.Ar file 83exists and the 84.Fl a 85flag is not specified, the file will be overwritten. 86.It Fl p 87Makes 88.Nm 89output POSIX.2 compliant (each time is printed on its own line). 90.El 91.Pp 92Some shells may provide a builtin 93.Nm 94command which is similar or identical to this utility. 95Consult the 96.Xr builtin 1 97manual page. 98.Pp 99If 100.Nm 101receives a 102.Dv SIGINFO 103(see the status argument for 104.Xr stty 1 ) 105signal, the current time the given command is running will be written to the 106standard output. 107.Sh ENVIRONMENT 108The 109.Ev PATH 110environment variable is used to locate the requested 111.Ar utility 112if the name contains no 113.Ql / 114characters. 115.Sh EXIT STATUS 116If 117.Ar utility 118could be timed successfully, its exit status is returned. 119If 120.Ar utility 121terminated abnormally, a warning message is output to stderr. 122If the 123.Ar utility 124was found but could not be run, the exit status is 126. 125If no 126.Ar utility 127could be found at all, the exit status is 127. 128If 129.Nm 130encounters any other error, the exit status is between 1 and 125 131included. 132.Sh SEE ALSO 133.Xr builtin 1 , 134.Xr csh 1 , 135.Xr getrusage 2 , 136.Xr wait 2 137.Sh STANDARDS 138The 139.Nm 140utility is expected to conform to ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 (``POSIX''). 141.Sh HISTORY 142A 143.Nm 144utility appeared in 145.At v3 . 146