Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Path: utzoo!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: Execution Timer
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 90 13:20:33 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov3.132033.17339@druid.uucp>
References: <4147@anomaly.sbs.com>

In article <4147@anomaly.sbs.com> Michael P. Deignan writes:
>I'd like to find a program which would perform similar to the "time" command,
>only in reverse:
>	time +nmins command.to.execute
>Which would execute "command.to.execute" for up to "nmins" minutes.

Never heard of one but assuming a UNIX system (you didn't say) running a
Bourne shell this will do what you want I think:

command &
sleep 60
kill $!

Will kill the command after 1 minute.

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