Date: 26 Dec 2006 23:45:25 -0000 From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com Subject: Re: Unix/sh/bash/tcsh command to limit clock time for program? Message-ID: <20061226234525.72192.qmail@simone.iecc.com> In-Reply-To: <26face530612261526r3954a4d6m972feba654b332b9@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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