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NAME
    time - Report time consumed by pipeline's execution.

SYNOPSIS
    time [-p] pipeline

DESCRIPTION
    Report time consumed by pipeline's execution.
    
    Execute PIPELINE and print a summary of the real time, user CPU time,
    and system CPU time spent executing PIPELINE when it terminates.
    
    Options:
      -p	print the timing summary in the portable Posix format
    
    The value of the TIMEFORMAT variable is used as the output format.
    
    Exit Status:
    The return status is the return status of PIPELINE.

SEE ALSO
    bash(1)

IMPLEMENTATION
    GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
    Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>