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Pining for the Fjords 1.0 (Default branch)
11-09-2008
Pftf (Pining for the Fjords) is another take at time keeping and work time accounting. It lets you keep track of how much time you spent working on what, figure out how much work you are or were supposed to do, taking into account holidays, vacation, sick time, etc., and build graphs showing the acquired data. |
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timex(1) General Commands Manual timex(1) NAME
timex - time a command; report process data and system activity SYNOPSIS
command DESCRIPTION
reports in seconds the elapsed time, user time, and system time spent in execution of the given command. Optionally, process accounting data for command and all its children can be listed or summarized, and total system activity during the execution interval can be reported. The output of is written on the standard error. Timex returns an exit status of 1 if it is used incorrectly, if it is unable to fork, or if it could not exec command . Otherwise, timex returns the exit status of command. Options Report the total number of blocks read or written and total characters transferred by command and all its children. This option works only if the process accounting soft- ware is installed. List process accounting records for command and all its children. The suboptions and modify the data items reported. They behave as defined in acct- com(1M). The number of blocks read or written and the number of characters transferred are always reported. This option works only if the process accounting software is installed and has been invoked to create Report total system activity (not just that due to command) that occurred during the execution interval of command. All the data items listed in sar(1M) are reported. EXAMPLES
A simple example: A terminal session of arbitrary complexity can be measured by timing a sub-shell: session commands EOT WARNINGS
Process records associated with command are selected from the accounting file by inference, since process genealogy is not available. Background processes having the same user-ID, terminal-ID, and execution time window are spuriously included. SEE ALSO
sar(1M), acctcom(1M). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
timex(1)