(command1 &);(command2 &)
sleep 10
killall command1
killall command2

perhaps?

On Feb 12, 2008 5:29 PM, willhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'd like to use a shell script to start two process at once, wait a while
> and
> then kill them both.  Starting them manually, I'd just use the &
> redirector
> but I can't figure out how to do the same thing in a script.  When I try
> it,
> the script waits for one job to be finished.  For example:
>
> kwrite &
> konqueror &
> sleep 5
> killall kwrite
> killall konqueror
>
> won't start konqueror till I kill kwrite manually and the sleep does not
> start
> until konqueror is finished, then I kill processes that don't exist.
>
> I poked around Google for a while and Linux in a nutshell but found
> nothing
> but fork bombs.  There has got to be a better way.
>
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