>>> On 9/23/2008 at 3:29 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Edmund R. MacKenty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > vmstat 10 86040 | while read line; do echo "$(date) $line"; done > vmstat.out
Or, if you just want a timestamp every so many lines of output (keeping in mind that the first line of each set will be the average since the last reboot): for ((i=1; i=i+1 ; i<100)) do echo date vmstat 10 30 done > vmstat.output Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390