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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Exit while loop on execute script Post 302900758 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 8th of May 2014 01:35:40 PM
Old 05-08-2014
You could use a trap command, for example..
Code:
trap 'reset_counter' ALRM
reset_counter() {
  time_delay=10
}
reset_counter
until [ $time_delay -eq 0 ]
do
  sleep 1
  time_delay=$((time_delay-1))
done
echo "timer expired"

Now every time you send a kill -ALRM to the subprocess the counter is reset..
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-08-2014 at 02:57 PM..
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSYS

       runalarm [ -h ]

       runalarm [ -d ] [ -t timeout ] command [ args ]

DESCRIPTION

       runalarm  tries to execute a command and, if the subprocess does not exit before a timer expires, tries to terminate that subprocess.  Oth-
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USAGE

       -d

	      Debug mode; send log messages to standard error as well as to the system log.

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BUGS

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