Re: Looking for a command...

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Wednesday, Mar 30, 2005, at 17:04 US/Central, Ken Keefe wrote:
> I am hoping there is some command out there that is basically an alarm
> wrapper. I'd like to be able to execute a command and if it doesn't
> terminate after say 60 seconds, it is killed. I could write a C program
> that could do this, but I am hoping one of you know of a magic command
> that already exists.

You could do this in bash by capturing the pid.  Here's a sample:

   sleep 100 &
   pid=$!
   echo $pid
   sleep 1
   ps -p $pid && kill $pid
   ps -p $pid

Regards,
- Robert
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