John Summerfield wrote: > 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 ~]$ > > > summer at Lyrebird:~> time (sleep 10s;sleep 10s) real 0m20.019s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s summer at Lyrebird:~> Lyrebird's OpenSUSE 10.2, bash 3.1.17, Bilby's nahantish. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list