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jc - JSON Convert /usr/bin/time command output parser

Output from /usr/bin/time is sent to STDERR, so the -o option can be used to redirect the output to a file that can be read by jc.

Alternatively, the output from /usr/bin/time can be redirected to STDOUT so jc can receive it.

Note: /usr/bin/time is similar but different from the Bash builtin time command.

Usage (cli):

$ /usr/bin/time -o timefile.out sleep 2; cat timefile.out | \\
  jc --time -p

Usage (module):

import jc
result = jc.parse('time', time_command_output)

Schema:

Source: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getrusage, https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/time.1.html

{
  "real_time":                          float,
  "user_time":                          float,
  "system_time":                        float,
  "elapsed_time":                       string,
  "elapsed_time_hours":                 integer,
  "elapsed_time_minutes":               integer,
  "elapsed_time_seconds":               integer,
  "elapsed_time_centiseconds":          integer,
  "elapsed_time_total_seconds":         float,
  "cpu_percent":                        integer,   # null if ?
  "average_shared_text_size":           integer,
  "average_unshared_data_size":         integer,
  "average_unshared_stack_size":        integer,
  "average_shared_memory_size":         integer,
  "maximum_resident_set_size":          integer,
  "block_input_operations":             integer,   # [0]
  "block_output_operations":            integer,   # [1]
  "major_pagefaults":                   integer,
  "minor_pagefaults":                   integer,
  "swaps":                              integer,
  "page_reclaims":                      integer,
  "page_faults":                        integer,
  "messages_sent":                      integer,
  "messages_received":                  integer,
  "signals_received":                   integer,
  "voluntary_context_switches":         integer,
  "involuntary_context_switches":       integer
  "command_being_timed":                string,
  "average_stack_size":                 integer,
  "average_total_size":                 integer,
  "average_resident_set_size":          integer,
  "signals_delivered":                  integer,
  "page_size":                          integer,
  "exit_status":                        integer
}

[0] aka File system inputs
[1] aka File system outputs

Examples:

$ /usr/bin/time --verbose -o timefile.out sleep 2; cat timefile.out | \\
  jc --time -p
{
  "command_being_timed": "sleep 2",
  "user_time": 0.0,
  "system_time": 0.0,
  "cpu_percent": 0,
  "elapsed_time": "0:02.00",
  "average_shared_text_size": 0,
  "average_unshared_data_size": 0,
  "average_stack_size": 0,
  "average_total_size": 0,
  "maximum_resident_set_size": 2084,
  "average_resident_set_size": 0,
  "major_pagefaults": 0,
  "minor_pagefaults": 72,
  "voluntary_context_switches": 2,
  "involuntary_context_switches": 1,
  "swaps": 0,
  "block_input_operations": 0,
  "block_output_operations": 0,
  "messages_sent": 0,
  "messages_received": 0,
  "signals_delivered": 0,
  "page_size": 4096,
  "exit_status": 0,
  "elapsed_time_hours": 0,
  "elapsed_time_minutes": 0,
  "elapsed_time_seconds": 2,
  "elapsed_time_centiseconds": 50,
  "elapsed_time_total_seconds": 2.5
}

$ /usr/bin/time --verbose -o timefile.out sleep 2; cat timefile.out | \\
  jc --time -p -r
{
  "command_being_timed": "\"sleep 2\"",
  "user_time": "0.00",
  "system_time": "0.00",
  "cpu_percent": "0",
  "elapsed_time": "0:02.00",
  "average_shared_text_size": "0",
  "average_unshared_data_size": "0",
  "average_stack_size": "0",
  "average_total_size": "0",
  "maximum_resident_set_size": "2084",
  "average_resident_set_size": "0",
  "major_pagefaults": "0",
  "minor_pagefaults": "72",
  "voluntary_context_switches": "2",
  "involuntary_context_switches": "0",
  "swaps": "0",
  "block_input_operations": "0",
  "block_output_operations": "0",
  "messages_sent": "0",
  "messages_received": "0",
  "signals_delivered": "0",
  "page_size": "4096",
  "exit_status": "0"
}

parse

def parse(data, raw=False, quiet=False)

Main text parsing function

Parameters:

data:        (string)  text data to parse
raw:         (boolean) unprocessed output if True
quiet:       (boolean) suppress warning messages if True

Returns:

Dictionary. Raw or processed structured data.

Parser Information

Compatibility: linux, darwin, cygwin, aix, freebsd

Source: jc/parsers/time.py

Version 1.4 by Kelly Brazil (kellyjonbrazil@gmail.com)