time: Format String
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1 1.2 The Format String
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1 The "format string" controls the contents of the 'time' output. It
1 consists of "resource specifiers" and "escapes", interspersed with plain
1 text.
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1 A backslash introduces an "escape", which is translated into a single
1 printing character upon output. The valid escapes are listed below. An
1 invalid escape is output as a question mark followed by a backslash.
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1 '\t'
1 a tab character
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1 '\n'
1 a newline
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1 '\\'
1 a literal backslash
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1 'time' always prints a newline after printing the resource use
1 information, so normally format strings do not end with a newline
1 character (or '\n').
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1 A resource specifier consists of a percent sign followed by another
1 character. An invalid resource specifier is output as a question mark
1 followed by the invalid character. Use '%%' to output a literal percent
1 sign.
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1 The resource specifiers, which are a superset of those recognized by
1 the 'tcsh' builtin 'time' command, are listed below. Not all resources
1 are measured by all versions of Unix, so some of the values might be
1 reported as zero (⇒Accuracy).
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