time command?

Jeff Roth ntm1569 at dsacg3.UUCP
Thu Feb 16 01:47:22 AEST 1989


>From article <2129 at ndsuvax.UUCP>, by nukim at ndsuvax.UUCP (kyongsok kim):
>     When I executed "time" command under "csh", I got seven entries.
> The man page of time and csh explains only the first four entries.
> I would like to know what the remaining three entries mean [....]

Questioner asked for email reply, but answer may be of wider interest.

> ndsuvax-102 % time wc news.list
>      375     385    6157 news.list
> 0.0u 0.0s 0:00 66% 8+18k 2+3io 1pf+0w
>                    ????? ????? ??????
                       ^     ^     ^             
                       |     |     |__ took one page fault & wasn't swapped
                       |     |____ did 2 reads and 3 writes
                       |_____ on average used 8K text, 18K data

The csh man page describes time output in the section on "predefined and
environment variables." Also worth a look: getrusage(2).
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