On 12/30/05 11:54 AM, "vodhner at cox.net" <vodhner at cox.net> wrote: > I just yesterday discovered the $SECONDS variable in ksh and bash. It lets > you measure elapsed time in a shell script without spawning separate processes > -- very nice. Thanks for the tip! Very slick. kevin at hangar ~ $ echo $SECONDS; sleep 5; echo $SECONDS 138 143