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 Definitions volume of
       POSIX.1‐2008, 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
       Section 2.14, Special Built-In Utilities

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, <sys_times.h>

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in  electronic  form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
       -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX),	The  Open  Group  Base
       Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electri‐
       cal and Electronics Engineers,  Inc  and	 The  Open  Group.   (This  is
       POSIX.1-2008  with  the	2013  Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) 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
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