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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting What does this mean? Post 302866177 by Corona688 on Monday 21st of October 2013 12:13:43 PM

10-21-2013

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Originally Posted by manands07

Well it can be anything . .
I have written three scripts by now and after successful execution of each script, there's a message as shown before.
Only the field values are changing . .

Like,
5.85u 4.679s 0:16.78 105.2% 1+6k 7+8io 5pf+7w

I want to know the significance of each field . .

Thanks for reply Smilie

I'm guessing -- only guessing, mind you -- that something in your scripts is using the shell's time builtin. This can change a lot across different systems but I recognize some parts of it:

It's telling you how much time something spent running as User(5.85 seconds), as System (4.679 seconds), and a total of 16.78 seconds (so must have spent some seconds just sitting waiting for I/O).

Try time sleep 10 in your shell.

The rest I'm not sure of. I'm not even sure what the "something" was since you refuse to post your script. What's your system? uname -a if you don't know.

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ltime

TIME(3F)																  TIME(3F)

NAME

       time, ctime, ltime, gmtime - return system time

SYNOPSIS

       integer function time()

       character*(*) function ctime (stime)
       integer stime

       subroutine ltime (stime, tarray)
       integer stime, tarray(9)

       subroutine gmtime (stime, tarray)
       integer stime, tarray(9)

DESCRIPTION

       Time returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured in seconds.  This is the value of the UNIX system clock.

       Ctime  converts	a  system  time  to  a	24  character ASCII string.  The format is described under ctime(3).  No 'newline' or NULL will be
       included.

       Ltime and gmtime disect a UNIX time into month, day, etc., either for the local time zone or as GMT.  The order and meaning of each element
       returned in tarray is described under ctime(3).

FILES

       /usr/lib/libU77.a

SEE ALSO

       ctime(3), itime(3F), idate(3F), fdate(3F)

4.2 Berkeley Distribution					   May 15, 1985 							  TIME(3F)