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(time.info)Setting Format

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Setting the Output Format
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   `time' uses a "format string" to determine which information to
display about the resources used by the command it runs.  Note: Format
String, for the interpretation of the format string contents.

   You can specify a format string with the command line options listed
below.  If no format is specified on the command line, but the `TIME'
environment variable is set, its value is used as the format string.
Otherwise, the default format built into `time' is used:

     %Uuser %Ssystem %Eelapsed %PCPU (%Xtext+%Ddata %Mmax)k
     %Iinputs+%Ooutputs (%Fmajor+%Rminor)pagefaults %Wswaps

   The command line options to set the format are:

`-f FORMAT'
`--format=FORMAT'
     Use FORMAT as the format string.

`-p'
`--portability'
     Use the following format string, for conformance with POSIX
     standard 1003.2:

          real %e
          user %U
          sys %S

`-q'
`--quiet'
     Suppress non-zero error code from the executed program.

`-v'
`--verbose'
     Use the built-in verbose format, which displays each available
     piece of information on the program's resource use on its own
     line, with an English description of its meaning.