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.TH TIME 3am "Aug 08 2012" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules"
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time \- time functions for gawk
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extension adds two functions named
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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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to indicate the problem.
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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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is negative, or the attempt to sleep fails,
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then it returns \-1 and sets
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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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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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