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Re: Looking for a command...

KDE users have a nice GUI dialog with a timeout feature.

kdialog --help

There is also whiptail which looks like a curses-based implementation of kdialog.

The proper way to do what you want from the shell directly is via signals
and use of the 'trap' command and 'wait' commands with forking your alarm.

In Perl, this is trivial to hook into SIGALRM.

Mike/

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