NAME time - time command executionCheck out the Unix Man pages ManualsSYNOPSIS time [-l] command
DESCRIPTION The time utility executes and times command by initiating a timer and passing the command to the shell. After the command finishes, 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 command process.
Available options:
-l The contents of the rusage structure are printed as well.
The csh(1) has its own and syntactically different builtin version of time. The command described here is available as /usr/bin/time to csh users.
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.
SEE ALSO csh(1), getrusage(2)
HISTORY A time command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.