time(1): Add EXAMPLES section

Add EXAMPLES showing all five flags: -a, -h, -l, -o, -p

Approved by:	manpages (bcr)
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Fernando Apesteguía 2020-07-07 16:07:39 +00:00
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.\" @(#)time.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd May 14, 2006
.Dd July 7, 2020
.Dt TIME 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -129,6 +129,62 @@ If
.Nm
encounters any other error, the exit status is between 1 and 125
included.
.Sh EXAMPLES
Time the execution of
.Xr ls 1
on an empty directory:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ /usr/bin/time ls
0.00 real 0.00 user 0.00 sys
.Ed
.Pp
Time the execution of the
.Xr cp 1
command and store the result in the
.Pa times.txt
file.
Then execute the command again to make a new copy and add the result to the same
file:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ /usr/bin/time -o times.txt cp FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso copy1.iso
$ /usr/bin/time -a -o times.txt cp FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso copy2.iso
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Pa times.txt
file will contain the times of both commands:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ cat times.txt
0.68 real 0.00 user 0.22 sys
0.67 real 0.00 user 0.21 sys
.Ed
.Pp
Time the
.Xr sleep 1
command and show the results in a human friendly format.
Show the contents of the
.Em rusage
structure too:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ /usr/bin/time -l -h -p sleep 5
real 5.01
user 0.00
sys 0.00
0 maximum resident set size
0 average shared memory size
0 average unshared data size
0 average unshared stack size
80 page reclaims
0 page faults
0 swaps
1 block input operations
0 block output operations
0 messages sent
0 messages received
0 signals received
3 voluntary context switches
0 involuntary context switches
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr builtin 1 ,
.Xr csh 1 ,