vtime - a verbose time command

I've never ever remembered what time's output meant. It is so terse that I just don't know what each of the numbers mean. So I made a human readable version.

Usage

vtime [flags] <command> [args...]

Example Output

❯ vtime -a sleep 1

  Wall clock time ·····  1.008 s
  User CPU time ·······  622 µs
  System CPU time ·····  1.6 ms
  CPU utilization ·····  0%
  Voluntary ctx sw ····  0
  Involuntary ctx sw ··  6
  Max memory (RSS) ····  1.2 MB
  Page faults (major) ·  1
  Page faults (minor) ·  214
  Disk reads ··········  0
  Disk writes ·········  0

Flags

• -a, --all: show all available details
• -c, --cpu: show CPU utilization and context switches
• -m, --memory: show memory usage and page faults
• -d, --disk: show disk I/O
• -h, --help: show usage

Features

• Zero dependencies
• Works on macOS and Linux

Install

cargo install vtime

Build

cargo build --release

The binary will be available at target/release/vtime.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.