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# 1  
Old 10-27-2014
Maximum execution of script
Hi All,

I have a requirement where I need to restrict maximum execution time of a script.

e.g I have script filewatcher.sh This will look for a file abc.txt. If the file does not arrive in 10 hours, the script should exit with message " file did not arrived in given time".

How can we achieve this?
# 2  
Old 10-27-2014
Did you search these fora for exactly your problem? There are plenty of proposals, amongst which
- loop 10 times, sleeping for an hour in each loop
- schedule a cron job in 10 hours
- calculate ending time, sleep until then...
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# 3  
Old 10-27-2014
Count your delayed loops.

Hope this helps
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Old 10-27-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by sea
Count your delayed loops.

Hope this helps

This resolved my problem.

Thanks mate!!
# 5  
Old 10-27-2014
Actualy i just edited my 'current time (date +'%F' )' example to avoid the day switch...
After editing figured RudiC just suggested the same.
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