What have you done so far? What is the problem that you're having? Most folks around here are happy to help but generally not willing to do the work for you.
Although homeworks are not allowed on this site, we could help if you show us what you have tried so far. Have a look at the while/break/done structure as well as the read function.
There are two things, the number of tries and the running clock. The -t option of the read internal command takes care of the timout while the shell wait for the user input.
But you have to implement a general timer that will start as soon as the script starts. For that, use the date function converted in number of seconds since EPOCH. That's the idea. Try this:
And.. please use the CODE tags for clarity.
Last edited by ripat; 09-29-2009 at 01:14 PM..
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