I would assume that you started it with time mysqldump ...
, which most likely uses the shell built-in time
, not /usr/bin/time
or /bin/time
. I don't think there's a possibility to make it print the time.
However, you can cd /proc/$(pgrep mysqldump)
and check some statistics there. If all you want to know is how long it is since you started it, you can just run
ps faxo pid,cls,stat,pri,euser,pcpu,etime,rss:8,args
which will show the elapsed time in the 7th column as "days-hours:minutes:seconds".