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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sleep command Post 302566786 by mandlysreedhar on Friday 21st of October 2011 06:03:24 AM
Old 10-21-2011
Hi ,

My Question is , is there any command which automatically terminates the sleep command. or is there any way to give sleep command that has to work for given hours and after that the sleep function should not work.

like
Code:
while [ "$messag" ! ="P" ]
loop
  sleep 1800
  messag=/status.sql
done

sleep 1800 ,.. it means it will be in loop till 30 mints.. and again it will check the condition if it is false again it will go to sleep for another 30 mints .. like i want to work sleep command up to 2 hours.. if it is beyond 2 hours .. sleep command should come out ..and it should come out of the execution .
please help me out from this problem so that am very thank full to every one

Thanks
Sree


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SLEEP(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  SLEEP(3)

NAME
sleep - sleep for the specified number of seconds SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds); DESCRIPTION
sleep() makes the calling thread sleep until seconds seconds have elapsed or a signal arrives which is not ignored. RETURN VALUE
Zero if the requested time has elapsed, or the number of seconds left to sleep, if the call was interrupted by a signal handler. CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001. BUGS
sleep() may be implemented using SIGALRM; mixing calls to alarm(2) and sleep() is a bad idea. Using longjmp(3) from a signal handler or modifying the handling of SIGALRM while sleeping will cause undefined results. SEE ALSO
alarm(2), nanosleep(2), signal(2), signal(7) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
2010-02-03 SLEEP(3)
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