On 14/03/07, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote: > Will McDonald wrote: > > On 14/03/07, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote: > >> Ryan Simpkins wrote: > >> > > >> > Am I using time right to measure it? > >> No, you're timing the cat only. > > > > I don't think that's the case, you know. If I run the following: > > [summer at bilby ~]$ time sleep 10s;sleep 10s > > real 0m10.011s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.003s > [summer at bilby ~]$ time sleep 10s|sleep 10s > > real 0m10.002s > user 0m0.001s > sys 0m0.003s > [summer at bilby ~]$ time sleep 10s | time sleep 10s > 0.00user 0.00system 0:09.99elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k > 0inputs+0outputs (0major+150minor)pagefaults 0swaps > > real 0m10.011s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.006s > [summer at bilby ~]$ I sit corrected, thanks John. A subshell appears to show the expected behaviour... [wmcdonald at stella ~]$ time $(sleep 10s; sleep 10s) real 0m20.011s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.006s Will.