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From: goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: timeout on read; Bourne Shell
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Date: 26 May 91 16:53:14 GMT
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Is there any elegant way to achive a timeout on a read within
a shell script?  Perhaps even "fairly elegant" would do.  Even
a kludge?
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   -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
   goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer