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.TH TIME 3am "Jan 15 2013" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules"
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.SH NAME
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time \- time functions for gawk
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.ft CW
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@load "time"
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.sp
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time = gettimeofday()
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.br
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ret = sleep(amount)
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.ft R
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.I time
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extension adds two functions named
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.B gettimeofday()
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and
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.BR sleep() ,
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as follows.
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.TP
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.B gettimeofday()
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This function returns the number of seconds since the Epoch
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as a floating-point value. It should have subsecond precision.
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It returns \-1 upon error and sets
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.B ERRNO
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to indicate the problem.
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.TP
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.BI sleep( seconds )
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This function attempts to sleep for the given amount of seconds, which
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may include a fractional portion.
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If
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.I seconds
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is negative, or the attempt to sleep fails,
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then it returns \-1 and sets
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.BR ERRNO .
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Otherwise, the function should return 0 after sleeping
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for the indicated amount of time.
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.\" .SH NOTES
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.\" .SH BUGS
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.SH EXAMPLE
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.ft CW
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.nf
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@load "time"
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\&...
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printf "It is now %g seconds since the Epoch\en", gettimeofday()
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printf "Pausing for a while... " ; sleep(2.5) ; print "done"
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.fi
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.ft R
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.IR "GAWK: Effective AWK Programming" ,
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.IR filefuncs (3am),
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.IR fnmatch (3am),
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.IR fork (3am),
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.IR inplace (3am),
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.IR ordchr (3am),
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.IR readdir (3am),
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.IR readfile (3am),
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.IR revoutput (3am),
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.IR rwarray (3am).
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.PP
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.IR gettimeofday (2),
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.IR nanosleep (2),
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.IR select (2).
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.SH AUTHOR
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Arnold Robbins,
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.BR arnold@skeeve.com .
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.SH COPYING PERMISSIONS
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Copyright \(co 2012, 2013,
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Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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