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How to measure the amount of time a program is running? 1

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dafnas

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Feb 21, 2002
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I know there is the "time" command, but what do I do with it's output? do I sum the user+system to get the result or do I look at the third argument
>time sleep 3
0.00u 0.01s 0:03.01 0.3%
What do the output means?

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Dafna
 
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