Bisbal, Prentice wrote: > Stephen Harris wr >>What you want is >> 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? > summer at Lyrebird:~> time { sleep 10s;sleep 10s;} real 0m20.023s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.008s summer at Lyrebird:~> [summer at bilby ~]$ time (sleep 5s;sleep 5s) [summer at bilby ~]$ -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list