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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:52:55 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 07), Beecher Rintoul said:
> I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program
> (in this case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it
> to launch the program, but it seems to ignore anything after that. I
> am not a programmer so does anyone have a suggestion on this script?
> Any help would be appreciated.

You need to background it so your script keeps running:

#! /bin/sh
# Launch program
lynx &
# Store its processid for later
pid=$!
# 60 seconds
sleep 60
# Kill backgrounded process
kill -9 $pid

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com