On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:09:03PM -0400, Bisbal, Prentice wrote: > Stephen Harris wrote: > > time ( command ; command ) > > I was going to suggest that myself, but when I tested in in bash, it > didn't work for me. Does it work for you? Hmm, interesting. $ time ( echo hello ) It works in bash-2.03 on Solaris 8, but not in bash-2.05 in FC1, FC2, RHEL2.1 or Solaris 9 and not in bash-3.00 in RHEL4u4 or Solaris 10. Works correctly in ksh88 and ksh93 on all platforms. Sounds like a bash bug to me! -- rgds Stephen