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[ILUG] real time shell question...

[ILUG] real time shell question...

Stephen_Reilly at dell.com Stephen_Reilly at dell.com
Thu Apr 5 15:33:42 IST 2001


>fine so far. now, for any given test foo shouldn't take more then around10
minutes. how can i kill foo if it takes longer then 20 seconds viaa shell
script. note, this is a bourne shell script and can't takeadvantage of gnu
extensions to utils or in bash.
hmmm stab in the dark
for test in `foo -h | awk '{print $1}'`; do 
foo& $test sleep 20; killall foo
done 
steve

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