From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Chris Johnson <johnch@uwec.edu>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: The Halting Problem
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 01:53:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3RD-H_o6sn9e8TsAiq1Sk4K3kWB5DMxVdcJs8zASY2_JQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131228164937.GA44192@cs2666372x.uwec.edu>
On 28 December 2013 17:49, Chris Johnson <johnch@uwec.edu> wrote:
> Hi, folks. I have the following interest: I want to run a potentially long-running job interactively from a script, but if this job exceeds a certain duration, I want to kill it and notify the user.
...
> I'm thankful for any suggestions!
If you happen to have a fairly new version of gnu coreutils installed,
the 'timeout' command might be of interest here.
--
Mikael Magnusson
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-30 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-28 16:49 Chris Johnson
2013-12-28 20:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-12-29 13:35 ` Chris Johnson
2013-12-30 0:53 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
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