On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:25:25AM -0500, Jeffrey O. Stevison wrote: > I'm more trying to know when that exact command fails rather than any > output from the command itself. Try prefacing it with the "time" command: http://linux.ctyme.com/man/man3414.htm HTH, Andrew -- Andrew Yochum Plexpod andrew at plexpod.com 718-360-0879