command time output in Linux

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after compiling my prog i ran it with the command time

time ./a.out

and it gave me this output

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real	0m0.844s
user 0m0.172s
sys	0m0.596s

what does this output mean ?

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Re: command time output in Linux

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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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