how to timeout a linux script

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coreutils timeout and other timeout script i searched, they apply for a CDM
but i'd like to apply timeout for a linux script, if not finished for a period. like:

cd XXX && CMD && sleep 3 && kill -0 XX

How to do it?

Christophe Biocca · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-18 22:31:12Z

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You can pass the spawning of a subshell to timeout, and have the subshell run the code that needs to be timed out:

#!/bin/bash
timeout 5 bash -c "ping google.com -c 2; ping yahoo.com -c 10"

If you clarify what you need exactly there may be cleaner ways to achieve this.

answered Sep 18, 2012 at 22:31

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