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Hi

Actually what am trying to ask is , i have an shell script ,now i want to run this shell script for one hour continuously and after one hour it has to stop automatically.
can any one suggest me how to automate the shell script ?
we tried wth the getting the start time and add ing an hour to that , but we faield in that ?

please any one help me in resolving this issue

thanks in advance
lalitha

This is weird, why should you stop a script after one hour?
Clarify what you're trying to achieve with your script, show what have you tried so far and where you are stuck.

Regards

Actually i am doing some regression testing ...................

where we need to test one driver continuously for one hour ........... and need to check whether the driver test is performing fine or not , and here is the script
otalcount=0
failcount=0
passcount=0
testcase=0
failing_test=0
PresentTime=$(date +%k%M)
let TargetTime=$PresentTime+100
echo "TargetTime is $TargetTime"
touch /home/mohanav/DeviceDrivers/Logs/CLK_one_hour.txt
cd /opt/qcom/bin/tests
echo "=================================================================================================== =========================="
let totalcount=totalcount+1;
iteration=0
while [ $iteration -lt 780 ]
do
let iteration_count=iteration+1
./clk_test.sh -v >> /home/mohanav/DeviceDrivers/Logs/CLK_one_hour.txt
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo $?
echo "script: TEST FAILED"
testcase="clk_test"
echo "testcase is = $testcase"
echo "the test cases failing in $iteration_count iteration is $testcase driver" >> /home/mohanav/DeviceDrivers/Repeatability/repeatability_clk_test.txt
let failcount=failcount+1;
fi
let iteration=iteration+1
done
echo "================

so we need to run this for one hour continuously ...........?

The following is written to run for ten seconds; adjust the 10 to the appropriate number of seconds. (I did for ten for easier testing and to see that it works.)

Code:

> cat run_time
#! /usr/bin/bash

#variables
initial_time="test_file_start"
current_time="test_file_current"
time_diff_goal=10  # the number of seconds before exit

touch $initial_time
time1=`stat -c %Y $initial_time`

while [ 1 -eq 1 ]
   do

# do some stuff here

      touch $current_time
      time2=`stat -c %Y $current_time`

      time_diff=`echo $time2 - $time1 | bc`
      if [ $time_diff -ge $time_diff_goal ]
         then
         echo $time_diff
         exit 99
      fi
done

Hi

thanks for your response, i am trying to execute your script but while executing the belwo command

time1=`stat -c %Y $initial_time` in the linux console

i am getting an error as " stat not found"

????

and by the way I need the answer using shell script

I approached from a general unix perspective.
A quick google search seemed to show that stat was available in linux.
Linux Command Directory: stat