Hi all, Does anyone know of a simple way to determine how long any given command takes to run when issued from the command line? I've googled and turned up lots of timing a process type results...but I've had no luck recognizing a solution [poor google searches -- not sure what I'm searching for really]. I'm creating some cron jobs for backups and just want to schedule them far enough apart I'm not writing old data. there's surely something like this that will do what I need: #tar -czf ~/.evolution email.tar.gz | someapptotimemyprocess Any help greatly appreciated. TIA, -- Craig Thomas <cjtinhp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>