Running RHEL 3.0 x86_64 and RH9. I have searched the internet for over 2 hours looking for this information...this should be easy...according to various sites it should just work. I am trying to log the time a command takes to a log file with the "time" command. For example, the time below measures how long time it took for wc to count the text in /etc/hosts. # time wc /etc/hosts 72 332 2762 /etc/hosts real 0m0.002s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s According to time manual I can redirect actual values to a file with the -o or --output option. Example shown below, long it took the wc command to perform the operation: time --output=log wc /etc/hosts However, all I get is this -bash: --output=log: command not found See http://www.ss64.com/bash/time.html for online manual on time. "man time" shows this GNU OPTIONS -o FILE, --output=FILE Do not send the results to stderr, but overwrite the specified file. Is Redhat not running GNU Time? Does GNU OPTIONS under man pages mean it only works in GNU version of time? What version is Redhat using? Is there another way to redirect output without -o option. I tried 2> and 1> and it did not work, for example time wc /etc/hosts 2> file.txt time wc /etc/hosts 1> file.txt I tried it under bash, csh and ksh. Marcelino -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list