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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Example of running script with time limits? Post 302833885 by Skrynesaver on Thursday 18th of July 2013 03:30:56 AM
Old 07-18-2013
One approach is to use kill -0 to track the existence of the background process in the process table.

eg.
Code:
$ cat tmp.sh
#!/bin/bash

./tmp1.sh& 
tmp_1_pid=$!
exited=0
while [ $exited -eq 0 ];do
    sleep 1
    kill -0 $tmp_1_pid  
    exited=$?
done

echo container finished


$ cat tmp1.sh
#!/bin/bash

sleep 5
echo tmp 1 finished

$ . tmp.sh
tmp 1 finished
[2]-  Done                    ./tmp1.sh
-bash: kill: (6308) - No such process
container finished

 

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NAME
installsieve - user utility for managing sieve scripts SYNOPSIS
installsieve DESCRIPTION
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