Re: command to ensure other command does last longer than5 seconds

[Jan-Frode Myklebust <mykleb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2007-04-07, Shawn Everett <shawn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Just building off Micheal's idea:
>
> killafter.sh <command> <time>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> $1 &
> pid=$!
> sleep $2
> kill -TERM $pid

Just in case it might have died an recycled the pid, refer
to the job (%1), not the pid:

killafter.sh <command> <time>
#!bin/bash
$1 &
sleep $2
kill -TERM %1


Another way of doing it might be to fork a sub-shell with
limits:

	(ulimit -t 1 ; top)

But this is cputime, not walltime...


  -jf


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