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When writing scripts for other shells, it can be confusing and annoying that our `man` function shadows other manual pages, for example `exec(1p)` from [Linux man-pages]. I almost never want to see the fish variant for such contended cases (which obviuosly don't include fish-specific commands like `string`, only widely-known shell builtins). For the contented cases like `exec`, the POSIX documentation is more substantial and useful, since it describes a (sub)set of languages widely used for scripting. Because of this I think we should stop overriding the system's man pages. Nowadays we offer `exec -h` as intuitive way to show the documentation for the fish-specific command (note that `help` is not a good replacement because it uses a web browser). Looking through the contended commands, it seems like for most of them, the fish version is not substantially different from the system version. A notable exception is `read` but I don't think it's a very important one. So I think we should can sacrifice a bit of the native fish-scripting experience in exchange for playing nicer with other shells. I think the latter is more important because scripting is not our focus, the way I see it. So maybe put our manpath at the end. In lieu of that, let's at least have `exec.rst` reference the system variant. [Linux man-pages]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Closes #10376
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.. _cmd-time:
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time - measure how long a command or block takes
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Synopsis
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.. synopsis::
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time COMMAND
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Description
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.. only:: builder_man
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NOTE: This page documents the fish keyword ``time``.
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To see the documentation on any non-fish versions, use ``command man time``.
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``time`` causes fish to measure how long a command takes and print the results afterwards. The command can be a simple fish command or a block. The results can not currently be redirected.
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For checking timing after a command has completed, check :ref:`$CMD_DURATION <variables-special>`.
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Your system most likely also has a ``time`` command. To use that use something like ``command time``, as in ``command time sleep 10``. Because it's not inside fish, it won't have access to fish functions and won't be able to time blocks and such.
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How to interpret the output
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Time outputs a few different values. Let's look at an example::
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> time string repeat -n 10000000 y\n | command grep y >/dev/null
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Executed in 805.98 millis fish external
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usr time 798.88 millis 763.88 millis 34.99 millis
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sys time 141.22 millis 40.20 millis 101.02 millis
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The time after "Executed in" is what is known as the "wall-clock time". It is simply a measure of how long it took from the start of the command until it finished. Typically it is reasonably close to :envvar:`CMD_DURATION`, except for a slight skew because the two are taken at slightly different times.
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The other times are all measures of CPU time. That means they measure how long the CPU was used in this part, and they count multiple cores separately. So a program with four threads using all CPU for a second will have a time of 4 seconds.
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The "usr" time is how much CPU time was spent inside the program itself, the "sys" time is how long was spent in the kernel on behalf of that program.
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The "fish" time is how much CPU was spent in fish, the "external" time how much was spent in external commands.
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So in this example, since ``string`` is a builtin, everything that ``string repeat`` did is accounted to fish. Any time it spends doing syscalls like ``write()`` is accounted for in the fish/sys time.
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And ``grep`` here is explicitly invoked as an external command, so its times will be counted in the "external" column.
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Note that, as in this example, the CPU times can add up to more than the execution time. This is because things can be done in parallel - ``grep`` can match while ``string repeat`` writes.
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Example
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(for obvious reasons exact results will vary on your system)
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>_ time sleep 1s
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Executed in 1,01 secs fish external
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usr time 2,32 millis 0,00 micros 2,32 millis
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sys time 0,88 millis 877,00 micros 0,00 millis
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>_ time for i in 1 2 3; sleep 1s; end
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Executed in 3,01 secs fish external
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usr time 9,16 millis 2,94 millis 6,23 millis
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sys time 0,23 millis 0,00 millis 0,23 millis
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Inline variable assignments need to follow the ``time`` keyword::
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>_ time a_moment=1.5m sleep $a_moment
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Executed in 90.00 secs fish external
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usr time 4.62 millis 4.62 millis 0.00 millis
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sys time 2.35 millis 0.41 millis 1.95 millis
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