On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 22:15:00 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > it turns out that TIMEFORMAT belongs to the bash builtin "time" > and that digit precision numbers only up to 3 are obeyed. > > $ export TIMEFORMAT="r=%7R > u=%4U > s=%1S" > $ time echo > > r=0.000 > u=0.000 > s=0.0
Just for the record: * You can use the $'...' quoting form in bash, to put newlines in a string value using \n. * TIMEFORMAT=... time foo will invoke /usr/bin/time, but TIMEFORMAT=... eval time foo will use the builtin. hobbit:~$ TIMEFORMAT=$'real %R\nuser %U\nsys %S' eval time sleep 0.2 real 0.202 user 0.002 sys 0.001
