On 10/26/13, Jacob G Podipara <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Knights, > May seem to be a silly question. I would like to terminate a process like > say Herrie, Transmission > after an hour say. Can one do that while invoking the utility or is cron > necassary. The idea is > that I listen to quiet music while sleeping off. > Regards > Podi > PS. By the way can one post on Twitter from the CLI. > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > You can background your process and kill after some time like this in a shell script.
yourcommand & RETVAL=$! sleep 60m kill -9 $RETVAL Raman.P -- blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
