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Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)time.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd May 14, 2006
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.Dt TIME 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm time
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.Nd time command execution
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl al
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.Op Fl h | Fl p
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.Op Fl o Ar file
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.Ar utility Op Ar argument ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility
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executes and
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times the specified
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.Ar utility .
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After the
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.Ar utility
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finishes,
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.Nm
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writes to the standard error stream,
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(in seconds):
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the total time elapsed,
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the time used to execute the
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.Ar utility
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process and the time consumed by system overhead.
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.Pp
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The following options are available:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl a
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If the
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.Fl o
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flag is used, append to the specified file rather than overwriting
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it.
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Otherwise, this option has no effect.
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.It Fl h
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Print times in a human friendly format.
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Times are printed in minutes, hours,
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etc.\& as appropriate.
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.It Fl l
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The contents of the
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.Em rusage
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structure are printed as well.
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.It Fl o Ar file
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Write the output to
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.Ar file
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instead of stderr.
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If
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.Ar file
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exists and the
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.Fl a
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flag is not specified, the file will be overwritten.
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.It Fl p
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Makes
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.Nm
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output POSIX.2 compliant (each time is printed on its own line).
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.El
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.Pp
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Some shells may provide a builtin
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.Nm
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command which is similar or identical to this utility.
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Consult the
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.Xr builtin 1
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manual page.
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.Pp
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If
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.Nm
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receives a
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.Dv SIGINFO
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(see the status argument for
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.Xr stty 1 )
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signal, the current time the given command is running will be written to the
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standard output.
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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The
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.Ev PATH
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environment variable is used to locate the requested
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.Ar utility
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if the name contains no
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.Ql /
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characters.
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.Sh EXIT STATUS
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If
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.Ar utility
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could be timed successfully, its exit status is returned.
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If
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.Ar utility
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terminated abnormally, a warning message is output to stderr.
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If the
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.Ar utility
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was found but could not be run, the exit status is 126.
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If no
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.Ar utility
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could be found at all, the exit status is 127.
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If
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.Nm
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encounters any other error, the exit status is between 1 and 125
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included.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr builtin 1 ,
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.Xr csh 1 ,
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.Xr getrusage 2 ,
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.Xr wait 2
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Nm
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utility is expected to conform to ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 (``POSIX'').
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Nm
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utility appeared in
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.At v3 .
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