Re: how much processor time is allocated to a program
Frankie wrote:
>I am sure that when I first started using debian/linux I had a program
>(I think part of another packages), and if you ran "thisprogram
>anotherprogram" then it would rum anotherprogram and tell you exactly
>how much time was allocated to the running of that program.
>I don't know where to look in dselect, so can anyone remember what it
>was called?
The program is called `time'; it is not a standalone program but part of
bash:
olly@linda$ type time
time is a shell keyword
olly@linda$ help time
time: time [-p] PIPELINE
Execute PIPELINE and print a summary of the real time, user CPU time,
and system CPU time spent executing PIPELINE when it terminates.
The return status is the return status of PIPELINE. The `-p' option
prints the timing summary in a slightly different format. This uses
the value of the TIMEFORMAT variable as the output format.
times: times
Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from
the shell.
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