times — Shell Built-in Function to Report Time Use of the Current Shell

Synopsis

sh
times 
ksh
* 
times 

Description

Bourne Shell

Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.

Korn Shell

Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.

ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two asterisks (*) are treated specially in the following ways.

  1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.

  2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.

  3. Errors abort a script that contains them.

  4. Words following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment are expanded with the same rules as a variable ...

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