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<h1 class="top" id="Time"><span>Time<a class="copiable-link" href="#Time"> ¶</a></span></h1>
<p>This file documents the the GNU <code class="code">time</code> command for running programs
and summarizing the system resources they use.
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<ul class="toc-numbered-mark">
<li><a id="toc-Measuring-Program-Resource-Use" href="#Resource-Measurement">1 Measuring Program Resource Use</a>
<ul class="toc-numbered-mark">
<li><a id="toc-Setting-the-Output-Format" href="#Setting-Format">1.1 Setting the Output Format</a></li>
<li><a id="toc-The-Format-String" href="#Format-String">1.2 The Format String</a>
<ul class="toc-numbered-mark">
<li><a id="toc-Time-Resources-1" href="#Time-Resources">1.2.1 Time Resources</a></li>
<li><a id="toc-Memory-Resources-1" href="#Memory-Resources">1.2.2 Memory Resources</a></li>
<li><a id="toc-I_002fO-Resources-1" href="#I_002fO-Resources">1.2.3 I/O Resources</a></li>
<li><a id="toc-Command-Info-1" href="#Command-Info">1.2.4 Command Info</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a id="toc-Redirecting-Output" href="#Redirecting">1.3 Redirecting Output</a></li>
<li><a id="toc-Examples-1" href="#Examples">1.4 Examples</a></li>
<li><a id="toc-Accuracy-1" href="#Accuracy">1.5 Accuracy</a></li>
<li><a id="toc-Running-the-time-Command" href="#Invoking-time">1.6 Running the <code class="code">time</code> Command</a></li>
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<li><a id="toc-Reporting-bugs-1" href="#Reporting-bugs">2 Reporting bugs</a></li>
<li><a id="toc-GNU-Free-Documentation-License-1" href="#GNU-Free-Documentation-License">Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License</a></li>
<li><a id="toc-Concept-index-1" href="#Concept-index" rel="index">Concept index</a></li>
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<h2 class="chapter" id="Measuring-Program-Resource-Use"><span>1 Measuring Program Resource Use<a class="copiable-link" href="#Measuring-Program-Resource-Use"> ¶</a></span></h2>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-time"></a>
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-time-2"></a>
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<p>The <code class="code">time</code> command runs another program, then displays information
about the resources used by that program, collected by the system while
the program was running. You can select which information is reported
and the format in which it is shown (see <a class="pxref" href="#Setting-Format">Setting the Output Format</a>), or have
<code class="code">time</code> save the information in a file instead of displaying it on the
screen (see <a class="pxref" href="#Redirecting">Redirecting Output</a>).
</p>
<p>The resources that <code class="code">time</code> can report on fall into the general
categories of time, memory, and I/O and IPC calls. Some systems do not
provide much information about program resource use; <code class="code">time</code>
reports unavailable information as zero values (see <a class="pxref" href="#Accuracy">Accuracy</a>).
</p>
<p>The format of the <code class="code">time</code> command is:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">time <span class="r">[</span>option...<span class="r">]</span> <var class="var">command</var> <span class="r">[</span><var class="var">arg</var>...<span class="r">]</span>
</pre></div>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-resources"></a>
<p><code class="code">time</code> runs the program <var class="var">command</var>, with any given arguments
<var class="var">arg</var>…. When <var class="var">command</var> finishes, <code class="code">time</code> displays
information about resources used by <var class="var">command</var>.
</p>
<p>Here is an example of using <code class="code">time</code> to measure the time and other
resources used by running the program <code class="code">grep</code>:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">eg$ time grep nobody /etc/aliases
nobody:/dev/null
etc-files:nobody
misc-group:nobody
0.07user 0.50system 0:06.69elapsed 8%CPU (0avgtext+489avgdata 324maxresident)k
46inputs+7outputs (43major+251minor)pagefaults 0swaps
</pre></div>
<p>Mail suggestions and bug reports for GNU <code class="code">time</code> to
<code class="code">bug-time@gnu.org</code>. Please include the version of
<code class="code">time</code>, which you can get by running ‘<samp class="samp">time --version</samp>’, and the
operating system and C compiler you used.
</p>
<ul class="mini-toc">
<li><a href="#Setting-Format" accesskey="1">Setting the Output Format</a></li>
<li><a href="#Format-String" accesskey="2">The Format String</a></li>
<li><a href="#Redirecting" accesskey="3">Redirecting Output</a></li>
<li><a href="#Examples" accesskey="4">Examples</a></li>
<li><a href="#Accuracy" accesskey="5">Accuracy</a></li>
<li><a href="#Invoking-time" accesskey="6">Running the <code class="code">time</code> Command</a></li>
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<h3 class="section" id="Setting-the-Output-Format"><span>1.1 Setting the Output Format<a class="copiable-link" href="#Setting-the-Output-Format"> ¶</a></span></h3>
<p><code class="code">time</code> uses a <em class="dfn">format string</em> to determine which information to
display about the resources used by the command it runs. See <a class="xref" href="#Format-String">The Format String</a>, for the interpretation of the format string contents.
</p>
<p>You can specify a format string with the command line options listed
below. If no format is specified on the command line, but the
<code class="code">TIME</code> environment variable is set, its value is used as the format
string. Otherwise, the default format built into <code class="code">time</code> is used:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">%Uuser %Ssystem %Eelapsed %PCPU (%Xtext+%Ddata %Mmax)k
%Iinputs+%Ooutputs (%Fmajor+%Rminor)pagefaults %Wswaps
</pre></div>
<p>The command line options to set the format are:
</p>
<dl class="table">
<dt><code class="code">-f <var class="var">format</var></code></dt>
<dt><code class="code">--format=<var class="var">format</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Use <var class="var">format</var> as the format string.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">-p</code></dt>
<dt><code class="code">--portability</code></dt>
<dd><p>Use the following format string:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">real %e
user %U
sys %S
</pre></div>
<p>The default output format of time differs widely between
implementations. This option (in its short form -p) is supported by all
POSIX-compliant ’time’ implementations to retrieve basic information in
the described format.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><a id="index-format"></a><span><code class="code">-v</code><a class="copiable-link" href="#index-format"> ¶</a></span></dt>
<dt><code class="code">--verbose</code></dt>
<dd><p>Use the built-in verbose format, which displays each available piece of
information on the program’s resource use on its own line, with an
English description of its meaning.
</p></dd>
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<h3 class="section" id="The-Format-String"><span>1.2 The Format String<a class="copiable-link" href="#The-Format-String"> ¶</a></span></h3>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-format-1"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-resource"></a>
<p>The <em class="dfn">format string</em> controls the contents of the <code class="code">time</code> output.
It consists of <em class="dfn">resource specifiers</em> and <em class="dfn">escapes</em>, interspersed
with plain text.
</p>
<p>A backslash introduces an <em class="dfn">escape</em>, which is translated
into a single printing character upon output. The valid escapes are
listed below. An invalid escape is output as a question mark followed
by a backslash.
</p>
<dl class="table">
<dt><code class="code">\t</code></dt>
<dd><p>a tab character
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">\n</code></dt>
<dd><p>a newline
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">\\</code></dt>
<dd><p>a literal backslash
</p></dd>
</dl>
<p><code class="code">time</code> always prints a newline after printing the resource use
information, so normally format strings do not end with a newline
character (or ‘<samp class="samp">\n</samp>’).
</p>
<p>A resource specifier consists of a percent sign followed by another
character. An invalid resource specifier is output as a question mark
followed by the invalid character. Use ‘<samp class="samp">%%</samp>’ to output a literal
percent sign.
</p>
<p>The resource specifiers, which are a superset of those recognized by the
<code class="code">tcsh</code> builtin <code class="code">time</code> command, are listed below. Not all
resources are measured by all versions of Unix, so some of the values
might be reported as zero (see <a class="pxref" href="#Accuracy">Accuracy</a>).
</p>
<ul class="mini-toc">
<li><a href="#Time-Resources" accesskey="1">Time Resources</a></li>
<li><a href="#Memory-Resources" accesskey="2">Memory Resources</a></li>
<li><a href="#I_002fO-Resources" accesskey="3">I/O Resources</a></li>
<li><a href="#Command-Info" accesskey="4">Command Info</a></li>
</ul>
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<h4 class="subsection" id="Time-Resources-1"><span>1.2.1 Time Resources<a class="copiable-link" href="#Time-Resources-1"> ¶</a></span></h4>
<dl class="table">
<dt><code class="code">E</code></dt>
<dd><p>Elapsed real (wall clock) time used by the process, in
[hours:]minutes:seconds.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">e</code></dt>
<dd><p>Elapsed real (wall clock) time used by the process, in
seconds.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">S</code></dt>
<dd><p>Total number of CPU-seconds used by the system on behalf of the process
(in kernel mode), in seconds.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">U</code></dt>
<dd><p>Total number of CPU-seconds that the process used directly (in user
mode), in seconds.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">P</code></dt>
<dd><p>Percentage of the CPU that this job got. This is just user + system
times divied by the total running time.
</p></dd>
</dl>
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<h4 class="subsection" id="Memory-Resources-1"><span>1.2.2 Memory Resources<a class="copiable-link" href="#Memory-Resources-1"> ¶</a></span></h4>
<dl class="table">
<dt><code class="code">M</code></dt>
<dd><p>Maximum resident set size of the process during its lifetime, in
Kilobytes.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">t</code></dt>
<dd><p>Average resident set size of the process, in Kilobytes.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">K</code></dt>
<dd><p>Average total (data+stack+text) memory use of the process, in Kilobytes.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">D</code></dt>
<dd><p>Average size of the process’s unshared data area, in Kilobytes.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">p</code></dt>
<dd><p>Average size of the process’s unshared stack, in Kilobytes.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">X</code></dt>
<dd><p>Average size of the process’s shared text, in Kilobytes.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">Z</code></dt>
<dd><p>System’s page size, in bytes. This is a per-system constant, but
varies between systems.
</p></dd>
</dl>
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<h4 class="subsection" id="I_002fO-Resources-1"><span>1.2.3 I/O Resources<a class="copiable-link" href="#I_002fO-Resources-1"> ¶</a></span></h4>
<dl class="table">
<dt><code class="code">F</code></dt>
<dd><p>Number of major, or I/O-requiring, page faults that occurred while the
process was running. These are faults where the page has actually
migrated out of primary memory.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">R</code></dt>
<dd><p>Number of minor, or recoverable, page faults. These are pages that are
not valid (so they fault) but which have not yet been claimed by other
virtual pages. Thus the data in the page is still valid but the system
tables must be updated.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">W</code></dt>
<dd><p>Number of times the process was swapped out of main memory.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">c</code></dt>
<dd><p>Number of times the process was context-switched involuntarily (because
the time slice expired).
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">w</code></dt>
<dd><p>Number of times that the program was context-switched voluntarily, for
instance while waiting for an I/O operation to complete.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">I</code></dt>
<dd><p>Number of file system inputs by the process.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">O</code></dt>
<dd><p>Number of file system outputs by the process.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">r</code></dt>
<dd><p>Number of socket messages received by the process.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">s</code></dt>
<dd><p>Number of socket messages sent by the process.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">k</code></dt>
<dd><p>Number of signals delivered to the process.
</p></dd>
</dl>
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<h4 class="subsection" id="Command-Info-1"><span>1.2.4 Command Info<a class="copiable-link" href="#Command-Info-1"> ¶</a></span></h4>
<dl class="table">
<dt><code class="code">C</code></dt>
<dd><p>Name and command line arguments of the command being timed.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">x</code></dt>
<dd><p>Exit status of the command.
</p></dd>
</dl>
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<h3 class="section" id="Redirecting-Output"><span>1.3 Redirecting Output<a class="copiable-link" href="#Redirecting-Output"> ¶</a></span></h3>
<p>By default, <code class="code">time</code> writes the resource use statistics to the
standard error stream. The options below make it write the statistics
to a file instead. Doing this can be useful if the program you’re
running writes to the standard error or you’re running <code class="code">time</code>
noninteractively or in the background.
</p>
<dl class="table">
<dt><code class="code">-o <var class="var">file</var></code></dt>
<dt><code class="code">--output=<var class="var">file</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Write the resource use statistics to <var class="var">file</var>. By default, this
<em class="emph">overwrites</em> the file, destroying the file’s previous contents.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">-a</code></dt>
<dt><code class="code">--append</code></dt>
<dd><p><em class="emph">Append</em> the resource use information to the output file instead
of overwriting it. This option is only useful with the ‘<samp class="samp">-o</samp>’ or
‘<samp class="samp">--output</samp>’ option.
</p></dd>
</dl>
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<h3 class="section" id="Examples-1"><span>1.4 Examples<a class="copiable-link" href="#Examples-1"> ¶</a></span></h3>
<p>Run the command ‘<samp class="samp">wc /etc/hosts</samp>’ and show the default information:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">eg$ time wc /etc/hosts
35 111 1134 /etc/hosts
0.00user 0.01system 0:00.04elapsed 25%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
1inputs+1outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps
</pre></div>
<p>Run the command ‘<samp class="samp">ls -Fs</samp>’ and show just the user, system, and
wall-clock time:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">eg$ time -f "\t%E real,\t%U user,\t%S sys" ls -Fs
total 16
1 account/ 1 db/ 1 mail/ 1 run/
1 backups/ 1 emacs/ 1 msgs/ 1 rwho/
1 crash/ 1 games/ 1 preserve/ 1 spool/
1 cron/ 1 log/ 1 quotas/ 1 tmp/
0:00.03 real, 0.00 user, 0.01 sys
</pre></div>
<p>Edit the file <samp class="file">.bashrc</samp> and have <code class="code">time</code> append the elapsed time
and number of signals to the file <samp class="file">log</samp>, reading the format string
from the environment variable <code class="code">TIME</code>:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">eg$ export TIME="\t%E,\t%k" #<span class="r"> If using bash or ksh</span>
eg$ setenv TIME "\t%E,\t%k" #<span class="r"> If using csh or tcsh</span>
eg$ time -a -o log emacs .bashrc
eg$ cat log
0:16.55, 726
</pre></div>
<p>Run the command ‘<samp class="samp">sleep 4</samp>’ and show all of the information about it
verbosely:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">eg$ time -v sleep 4
Command being timed: "sleep 4"
User time (seconds): 0.00
System time (seconds): 0.05
Percent of CPU this job got: 1%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:04.26
Average shared text size (kbytes): 36
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 24
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 60
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 32
Average resident set size (kbytes): 24
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 3
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 0
Voluntary context switches: 11
Involuntary context switches: 0
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 3
File system outputs: 1
Socket messages sent: 0
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<h3 class="section" id="Accuracy-1"><span>1.5 Accuracy<a class="copiable-link" href="#Accuracy-1"> ¶</a></span></h3>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-error-_0028in-measurement_0029"></a>
<p>The elapsed time is not collected atomically with the execution of the
program; as a result, in bizarre circumstances (if the <code class="code">time</code>
command gets stopped or swapped out in between when the program being
timed exits and when <code class="code">time</code> calculates how long it took to run), it
could be much larger than the actual execution time.
</p>
<p>When the running time of a command is very nearly zero, some values
(e.g., the percentage of CPU used) may be reported as either zero (which
is wrong) or a question mark.
</p>
<p>Most information shown by <code class="code">time</code> is derived from the <code class="code">wait3</code>
system call. The numbers are only as good as those returned by
<code class="code">wait3</code>. Many systems do not measure all of the resources that
<code class="code">time</code> can report on; those resources are reported as zero. The
systems that measure most or all of the resources are based on 4.2 or
4.3BSD. Later BSD releases use different memory management code that
measures fewer resources.
</p>
<p>On systems that do not have a <code class="code">wait3</code> call that returns status
information, the <code class="code">times</code> system call is used instead. It provides
much less information than <code class="code">wait3</code>, so on those systems <code class="code">time</code>
reports most of the resources as zero.
</p>
<p>The ‘<samp class="samp">%I</samp>’ and ‘<samp class="samp">%O</samp>’ values are allegedly only “real” input
and output and do not include those supplied by caching devices. The
meaning of “real” I/O reported by ‘<samp class="samp">%I</samp>’ and ‘<samp class="samp">%O</samp>’ may be
muddled for workstations, especially diskless ones.
</p>
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<h3 class="section" id="Running-the-time-Command"><span>1.6 Running the <code class="code">time</code> Command<a class="copiable-link" href="#Running-the-time-Command"> ¶</a></span></h3>
<p>The format of the <code class="code">time</code> command is:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">time <span class="r">[</span>option...<span class="r">]</span> <var class="var">command</var> <span class="r">[</span><var class="var">arg</var>...<span class="r">]</span>
</pre></div>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-resources-1"></a>
<p><code class="code">time</code> runs the program <var class="var">command</var>, with any given arguments
<var class="var">arg</var>…. When <var class="var">command</var> finishes, <code class="code">time</code> displays
information about resources used by <var class="var">command</var> (on the standard error
output, by default). If <var class="var">command</var> exits with non-zero status or is
terminated by a signal, <code class="code">time</code> displays a warning message and the
exit status or signal number.
</p>
<p>Options to <code class="code">time</code> must appear on the command line before
<var class="var">command</var>. Anything on the command line after <var class="var">command</var> is
passed as arguments to <var class="var">command</var>.
</p>
<dl class="table">
<dt><code class="code">-o <var class="var">file</var></code></dt>
<dt><code class="code">--output=<var class="var">file</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Write the resource use statistics to <var class="var">file</var>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">-a</code></dt>
<dt><code class="code">--append</code></dt>
<dd><p><em class="emph">Append</em> the resource use information to the output file instead
of overwriting it.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">-f <var class="var">format</var></code></dt>
<dt><code class="code">--format=<var class="var">format</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Use <var class="var">format</var> as the format string.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">--help</code></dt>
<dd><p>Print a summary of the command line options to <code class="code">time</code> and exit.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="code">-p</code></dt>
<dt><code class="code">--portability</code></dt>
<dd><p>Use the POSIX format.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><a id="index-format-2"></a><span><code class="code">-v</code><a class="copiable-link" href="#index-format-2"> ¶</a></span></dt>
<dt><code class="code">--verbose</code></dt>
<dd><p>Use the built-in verbose format.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><a id="index-version-number"></a><span><code class="code">-V</code><a class="copiable-link" href="#index-version-number"> ¶</a></span></dt>
<dt><code class="code">--version</code></dt>
<dd><p>Print the version number of <code class="code">time</code> and exit.
</p></dd>
</dl>
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<h2 class="chapter" id="Reporting-bugs-1"><span>2 Reporting bugs<a class="copiable-link" href="#Reporting-bugs-1"> ¶</a></span></h2>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-bug-reporting"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-problems"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-reporting-bugs"></a>
<p>To report bugs, suggest enhancements or otherwise discuss GNU Datamash,
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<p>For bug reports, please include enough information for the maintainers
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<li>The version numbers of Datamash (which you can find by running
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include <samp class="file">ChangeLog</samp> entries (see <a data-manual="emacs" href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#Change-Log">Change Log</a> in <cite class="cite">The GNU
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<h3 class="heading" id="ADDENDUM_003a-How-to-use-this-License-for-your-documents"><span>ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents<a class="copiable-link" href="#ADDENDUM_003a-How-to-use-this-License-for-your-documents"> ¶</a></span></h3>
<p>To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
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license notices just after the title page:
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<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted"> Copyright (C) <var class="var">year</var> <var class="var">your name</var>.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
Free Documentation License''.
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<p>If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts,
replace the “with…Texts.” line with this:
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<div class="example smallexample">
<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted"> with the Invariant Sections being <var class="var">list their titles</var>, with
the Front-Cover Texts being <var class="var">list</var>, and with the Back-Cover Texts
being <var class="var">list</var>.
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<p>If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the
situation.
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<p>If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
to permit their use in free software.
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<h2 class="unnumbered" id="Concept-index-1"><span>Concept index<a class="copiable-link" href="#Concept-index-1"> ¶</a></span></h2>
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<table class="cp-letters-header-printindex"><tr><th>Jump to: </th><td><a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-B"><b>B</b></a>
<a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-C"><b>C</b></a>
<a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-F"><b>F</b></a>
<a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-P"><b>P</b></a>
<a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-R"><b>R</b></a>
<a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-V"><b>V</b></a>
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<table class="cp-entries-printindex" border="0">
<tr><td></td><th class="entries-header-printindex">Index Entry</th><th class="sections-header-printindex">Section</th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><hr></td></tr>
<tr><th id="Concept-index_cp_letter-B">B</th></tr>
<tr><td></td><td class="printindex-index-entry"><a href="#index-bug-reporting">bug reporting</a></td><td class="printindex-index-section"><a href="#Reporting-bugs">Reporting bugs</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><hr></td></tr>
<tr><th id="Concept-index_cp_letter-C">C</th></tr>
<tr><td></td><td class="printindex-index-entry"><a href="#index-checklist-for-bug-reports">checklist for bug reports</a></td><td class="printindex-index-section"><a href="#Reporting-bugs">Reporting bugs</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><hr></td></tr>
<tr><th id="Concept-index_cp_letter-F">F</th></tr>
<tr><td></td><td class="printindex-index-entry"><a href="#index-format">format</a></td><td class="printindex-index-section"><a href="#Setting-Format">Setting Format</a></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td class="printindex-index-entry"><a href="#index-format-1">format</a></td><td class="printindex-index-section"><a href="#Format-String">Format String</a></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td class="printindex-index-entry"><a href="#index-format-2">format</a></td><td class="printindex-index-section"><a href="#Invoking-time">Invoking time</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><hr></td></tr>
<tr><th id="Concept-index_cp_letter-P">P</th></tr>
<tr><td></td><td class="printindex-index-entry"><a href="#index-patches_002c-contributing">patches, contributing</a></td><td class="printindex-index-section"><a href="#Reporting-bugs">Reporting bugs</a></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td class="printindex-index-entry"><a href="#index-problems">problems</a></td><td class="printindex-index-section"><a href="#Reporting-bugs">Reporting bugs</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><hr></td></tr>
<tr><th id="Concept-index_cp_letter-R">R</th></tr>
<tr><td></td><td class="printindex-index-entry"><a href="#index-reporting-bugs">reporting bugs</a></td><td class="printindex-index-section"><a href="#Reporting-bugs">Reporting bugs</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><hr></td></tr>
<tr><th id="Concept-index_cp_letter-V">V</th></tr>
<tr><td></td><td class="printindex-index-entry"><a href="#index-version-number">version number</a></td><td class="printindex-index-section"><a href="#Invoking-time">Invoking time</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><hr></td></tr>
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<table class="cp-letters-footer-printindex"><tr><th>Jump to: </th><td><a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-B"><b>B</b></a>
<a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-C"><b>C</b></a>
<a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-F"><b>F</b></a>
<a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-P"><b>P</b></a>
<a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-R"><b>R</b></a>
<a class="summary-letter-printindex" href="#Concept-index_cp_letter-V"><b>V</b></a>
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