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Operating Systems AIX Read input data within a specified period of time Post 302483931 by R0H0N on Wednesday 29th of December 2010 04:17:42 AM
Old 12-29-2010
Quote:
When I run ur latest code as:
sh delay.sh
Enter input:2010-12-12
Using input value = []

Seems to work fine when I give some input string and do not press "enter".
But in this case /tmp/optFile doesnot store anything.I do not know the reason!
It is becuase the input is stored in /tmp/optFile at the end of the charReading.pl program execution. So, u will not find anything in that file untill charReading.pl program in running.

Quote:
When I run it withoutgiving any input as
sh delay.sh
Enter input:Using input value = []

It shud give output as "Using Default value".
Little bit of change in shell script.

Code:
if [ -s "timeoutFile" ] ; then
      while ps -p $pid ; do            # This will ensure that charReading.pl process is completed.
         sleep 1
      done         
      input=`cat /tmp/optFile`         # After that only input will be fetched from optFile
      echo "Using input value = [${input}]"
else
      kill -9 $pid
      echo "Using default value"    
fi

R0H0N
 

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