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Old 02-10-2009
Corona688 Corona688 is offline
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The problem is, 'time' is not an external command, it is a builtin, and one that doesn't seem to obey normal redirection either! I had to wrap it in brackets to get the shell to catch it.

Code:
( time wget -q sitename -O /dev/null ) 2> wlog

wget's built-in -q is easier than > /dev/null 2> /dev/null, and -O /dev/null stops it from cluttering your current directory with downloaded files.