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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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