1TIMES(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual TIMES(1P)
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13 times — write process times
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19 The times utility shall write the accumulated user and system times for
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23 "%dm%fs %dm%fs\n%dm%fs %dm%fs\n", <shell user minutes>,
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30 <sys/times.h> tms structure (defined in the Base Definitions volume of
31 POSIX.1‐2008, Chapter 13, Headers) as returned by times(): tms_utime,
32 tms_stime, tms_cutime, and tms_cstime, respectively.
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76 $ times
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94 from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
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