Problem with time command

[Michael Sierchio]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Ernie Luzar <luzar722 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The DESCRIPTION says,
> The time utility executes and times the specified utility. After the
> utility finishes, time writes to the standard error stream, (in seconds):
> the total time elapsed, the time used to execute the utility process and
> the time consumed by system overhead.
>
>
It is sometimes instructive to read a man page all the way to the end:

SEE ALSO

     builtin(1), csh(1), getrusage(2), wait(2)

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