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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sleep command Post 302568362 by mandlysreedhar on Thursday 27th of October 2011 06:32:26 AM
Old 10-27-2011
Hi All,

Thanks for replies .. my problem is resolved ...
for my curiousness am asking one more question... like is there any command with terminates the sleep mode of a job.. ... is there any way to set the sleep out timings .. i means the script should sleep only for 3 hours .. if it goes beyond 3 hours it should come out of the script.
i will give u more detail

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


the script will sleep untill the messag becomes "P"... it may take one hour or 5 hours ... so my thing is while defining the sleep timing is there any way to give sleep time out after 3 hours .? is there any command like sleep out.

please let me know if there is such command.

Thanks
Sree
Last edited by Franklin52; 10-27-2011 at 09:07 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

sleep

SLEEP(1)							   User Commands							  SLEEP(1)

NAME

       sleep - delay for a specified amount of time

SYNOPSIS

       sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
       sleep OPTION

DESCRIPTION

       Pause for NUMBER seconds.  SUFFIX may be `s' for seconds (the default), `m' for minutes, `h' for hours or `d' for days.	Unlike most imple-
       mentations that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbitrary floating point number.  Given two or  more  arguments,  pause
       for the amount of time specified by the sum of their values.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report sleep bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report sleep translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       sleep(3)

       The  full  documentation  for sleep is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and sleep programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'sleep invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb					  September 2011							  SLEEP(1)
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