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From: brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Timeout on shell command.
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Date: 11 Aug 90 02:24:33 GMT
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I'd like to have a shell script run a command, but if that command doesn't
finish in X seconds, then the script should kill it, if the command
finishes sooner then the script should immediately continue. Any ideas on
how one could achieve this?

Thanks

James
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James Brister                                           brister@decwrl.dec.com
DEC Western Software Lab.                                 .....!decwrl!brister
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