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Wall time and cpu time in Linux command time

When I use Linux time command to measure time spent for running a command, which one below corresponds to CPU time and wall time?

real    3m13.792s
user    9m35.958s
sys 0m41.066s

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Answer

which one below corresponds to CPU time

user is cpu time in user mode, sys is cpu time in kernel mode

and wall time?

real

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