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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Killing a program in shell script Post 302778919 by phpchick on Monday 11th of March 2013 05:56:10 PM
Old 03-11-2013
would something like this also work?



Code:
some_command some_arg1 some_arg2 &
TASK_PID=$!
sleep 15
kill $TASK_PID

 

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CREEPY(1)						      General Commands Manual							 CREEPY(1)

NAME
CREEPY - A geolocation information aggregator DESCRIPTION
creepy is an application that allows you to gather geolocation related information about users from social networking platforms and image hosting services. The information is presented in a map inside the application where all the retrieved data is shown accompanied with rele- vant information (i.e. what was posted from that specific location) to provide context to the presentation. FEATURES
Map providers available : Google Maps - Virtual Maps - Open Street Maps Location information retieval from : Twitter's tweet location: Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device. Place (geographical name) derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates using geonames.com" Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface.The less accurate source , a corner of the bounding box is selected randomly. Geolocation information accessible through image hosting services API EXIF tags from the photos posted. Social networking platforms currently supported: Twitter Foursquare (only checkins that are posted to twitter). Image hosting services currently supported : flickr - information retrieved from API twitpic.com - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags yfrog.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags img.ly - information retrieved from photo exif tags plixi.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags twitrpix.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags foleext.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags shozu.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags pickhur.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags moby.to - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags twitsnaps.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags twitgoo.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags NOTES
Automatic caching of retrieved information in order to reduce API calls and the possibility of hitting limit rates. GUI with navigable map for better overview of the accumulated information 4 Maps providers (including Google Maps) to use. Open locations in Google Maps in your browser Export retrieved locations list as kmz (for Google Earth) or csv files. Handling twitter authentication in an easy way using oAuth. User credentials are not shared with the application. User/target search for twitter and flickr. AUTHOR
creepy was written by Yiannis Kakavas <jkakavas@gmail.com> This manual page was written by Daniel Echeverry for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). SEE ALSO
The full documentation which includes the keys descriptions is in /usr/share/doc/creepy/README. MAY 08, 2011 CREEPY(1)
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