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Subject: Re: Unix/sh/bash/tcsh command to limit clock time for program?
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>Is there a Unix or shell command that runs a given program for n
>seconds and then terminates it (unless the program takes less than n
>seconds to run, obviously)?

  some-command& sleep 42; kill -9 $!

R's,
John