On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:32:03AM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: > However, I do admit that using time for commands is probably a lot > better. Besides, I can never get a "precise" time with just inserting > the date in the prompt because if the terminal sits idle for some time, > the time in which a command starts executing can not be correctly > determined this way because you never really know how much time went by > (by just looking at the prompt) before the command started execution. > > Wouldn't it be nice if bash would allow a "secondary" definable "prompt" > that would be issued just *before* command execution? Then stuff like > printing date before commands could be done. Just a wish. :-) But > thanks for input.
The -t option to script gives precise timing of output to the terminal, and could be post-processed to yield the timing you're looking for. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]