Stephen Harris wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:34:23PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > > >> I can do "time command" and it tells me. >> > > >> time command; command >> > > No, because you're saying > time command > command > > >> time "command; command" >> > > No because you're trying to run "command; command" > > What you want is > time ( command ; command ) > Or if you've got a long series of commands you could stash them all in one shell script and then: time scriptname Correct? Cheers,