This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface
Contents
Application Usage
None.
Asynchronous Events
Default.
Consequences Of Errors
Default.
Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.Copyright
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard
for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
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IEEE/The Open Group 2017 TIMES(1POSIX)
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", <shelluserminutes>,
<shelluserseconds>, <shellsystemminutes>,
<shellsystemseconds>, <childrenuserminutes>,
<childrenuserseconds>, <childrensystemminutes>,
<childrensystemseconds>
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.1‐2017, Chapter13, Headers) as returned by times(): tms_utime,
tms_stime, tms_cutime, and tms_cstime, respectively.
Environment Variables
None.
Examples
$ times
0m0.43s0m1.11s8m44.18s1m43.23sExit Status
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
Extended Description
None.
Future Directions
None.
Input Files
None.
Name
times — write process times
Operands
None.
Options
None.
Output Files
None.
Prolog
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface
may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface
may not be implemented on Linux.
Rationale
The times special built-in from the Single UNIX Specification is now required for all conforming shells.
See Also
Section2.14, SpecialBuilt-InUtilities
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <sys_times.h>Stderr
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
Stdin
Not used.
Stdout
See the DESCRIPTION.
Synopsis
times
