Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:52:55 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple shell script Message-ID: <20051208035255.GD33064@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200512071847.05393.akbeech@gmail.com> References: <200512071847.05393.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
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