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Hi,
I picked up a shell script function to implement a read timeout functionality : Wait for specified number of seconds to read input, else return.

E.g:
read_timeout 5 localvar
This would wait...

i tried the following:
read -t10 lcl_var

it fails with error: bad options

Hi,
I have to develop a shell script which exits after <n> minutes. For e.g. The user is taking too much time to enter an input, and the script will terminate after 10 minutes pass by.

Is this...

Hi,
I have a crontab that runs some shell scripts at fixed intervals. Although, one condition for a script to continue is that a previous instance of the same script should have terminated. But,...