redhat man page for time

Query: time

OS: redhat

Section: n

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time(n) 						       Tcl Built-In Commands							   time(n)

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NAME
time - Time the execution of a script
SYNOPSIS
time script ?count? _________________________________________________________________
DESCRIPTION
This command will call the Tcl interpreter count times to evaluate script (or once if count isn't specified). It will then return a string of the form 503 microseconds per iteration which indicates the average amount of time required per iteration, in microseconds. Time is measured in elapsed time, not CPU time.
SEE ALSO
clock(n)
KEYWORDS
script, time Tcl time(n)
Related Man Pages
catch(1t) - opensolaris
time(1t) - opensolaris
tcl_gettime(3) - opendarwin
clock(3c) - hpux
catch(3tcl) - redhat
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