On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 05:30:30PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > The program is called `time'; it is not a standalone program but part of > bash: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] type time > time is a shell keyword > [EMAIL PROTECTED] help time
Just a side note: There is also a standalone time program called GNU time for shell that don't have the time keyword. The semantics are a bit differents and it reports other informations too. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /usr/bin/time --verbose runq Command being timed: "runq" User time (seconds): 0.03 System time (seconds): 0.02 Percent of CPU this job got: 106% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.04 Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 Average stack size (kbytes): 0 Average total size (kbytes): 0 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 216 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 116 Voluntary context switches: 0 Involuntary context switches: 0 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 0 Regards, E.