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TasostGreat

Jan 21st, 2009 11:16 am

command time output in Linux

after compiling my prog i ran it with the command time

time ./a.out

and it gave me this output

real        0m0.844s

user 0m0.172s

sys        0m0.596s

what does this output mean ?

niek_e

Jan 21st, 2009 12:14 pm

Re: command time output in Linux

Quote:

Originally Posted by TasostGreat (Post 784004)

what does this output mean ?

Hahaha :) So you're just running commands for the fun of it without knowing what they actually do or what?

Here's the man-page

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