time —
time command execution
  
    | time | [ -clpt] [-ffmt] command
      [argument ...] | 
The time utility executes and times
  command. After the command finishes,
  time writes the total elapsed time (wall clock time),
  (“real”), the CPU time spent executing
  command at user level (“user”), and the
  CPU time spent executing in the operating system kernel (“sys”),
  to the standard error stream. Times are reported in seconds.
Available options:
  - -c
- Displays information in the format used by default the
      timebuiltin of
      csh(1) uses (%Uu %Ss %E %P
      %X+%Dk %I+%Oio %Fpf+%Ww).
- -f
- Specify a time format using the
      csh(1)
      timebuiltin syntax. The following sequences may
      be used in the format string:
      - %U
- The time the process spent in user mode in cpu seconds.
- %S
- The time the process spent in kernel mode in cpu seconds.
- %E
- The elapsed (wall clock) time in seconds.
- %P
- The CPU percentage computed as (%U + %S) / %E.
- %W
- Number of times the process was swapped.
- %X
- The average amount in (shared) text space used in Kbytes.
- %D
- The average amount in (unshared) data/stack space used in Kbytes.
- %K
- The total space used (%X + %D) in Kbytes.
- %M
- The maximum memory the process had in use at any time in Kbytes.
- %F
- The number of major page faults (page needed to be brought from
        disk).
- %R
- The number of minor page faults.
- %I
- The number of input operations.
- %O
- The number of output operations.
- %r
- The number of socket messages received.
- %s
- The number of socket messages sent.
- %k
- The number of signals received.
- %w
- The number of voluntary context switches (waits).
- %c
- The number of involuntary context switches.
 
- -l
- Lists resource utilization information. The contents of the
      command process's rusage structure
      are printed; see below.
- -p
- The output is formatted as specified by IEEE Std
      1003.2-1992 (“POSIX.2”).
- -t
- Displays information in the format used by default the
      timebuiltin of
      tcsh(1) uses (%Uu %Ss %E
      %P\t%X+%Dk %I+%Oio %Fpf+%Ww) with three decimal places for time
    values.
Some shells, such as
    csh(1) and
    ksh(1), have their own and
    syntactically different built-in version of time.
    The utility described here is available as
    /usr/bin/time to users of these shells.
If the -l option is given, the following resource usage
  information is displayed in addition to the timing information:
  - maximum resident set size
- average shared memory size
- average unshared data size
- average unshared stack size
- page reclaims
- page faults
- swaps
- block input operations
- block output operations
- messages sent
- messages received
- signals received
- voluntary context switches
- involuntary context switches
Resource usage is the total for the execution of command
  and any child processes it spawns, as per
  wait4(2).
Thetime utility exits with one of the following values:
  - 1-125
- An error occurred in the timeutility.
- 126
- The command was found but could not be invoked.
- 127
- The command could not be found.
Otherwise, the exit status of time will be
    that of command.
The time utility conforms to IEEE Std
  1003.2-1992 (“POSIX.2”).
The granularity of seconds on microprocessors is crude and can result in times
  being reported for CPU usage which are too large by a second.