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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem using sed to match a string Post 302560994 by huffpuff on Sunday 2nd of October 2011 08:13:52 PM
Old 10-02-2011
Hmmm, thanks for that. It partially works - it pulls out the last time in the sequence but not the three times before. Sounds like it's going in the right direction though...
 

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times.h

times.h(3HEAD)							      Headers							    times.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       times.h, times - file access and modification times structure

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/times.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The <sys/times.h> header defines the structure tms, which is  returned by times() and includes the following members:

	 clock_t tms_utime	/* user CPU time */
	 clock_t tms_stime	/* system CPU time */
	 clock_t tms_cutime	/* user CPU time of terminated
				   child processes */
	 clock_t tms_cstime	/* system CPU time of terminated
				   child processes */

       The clock_t type is defined as described in <sys/types.h>.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       times(2), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5)

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