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Old 11-19-2010
Question how to stop execution of a script after one hour
I have a shell script that writes some data in a file. I want to stop the script after one hour from start of execution using "EXIT 1".
how to do it. I don't want to use CRONTAB.
# 2  
Old 11-19-2010
Would be easier if you'd post what you have in your script
# 3  
Old 11-19-2010
Should work with ksh,bash:
Code:
my_pid=$$
trap "exit 1" USR1
( sleep 3600; kill -USR1 $my_pid ) &

# time consuming stuff here

# 4  
Old 11-19-2010
I have the same query. please find my script below..

Code:
find . -type f +mmin +5 > /tmp/test_file

while read FNAME
do
scp -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa_noauth $FNAME myserver.com:/tmp/

done < /tmp/test_file

if there some 1000 files in the folder, the script pushes the files one by one and sometimes goes into a hang state after 1 hour. so is there a way to exit the script after 1 hour....
p.s the above script is just the core part of a big script which is designed for special purposes...
# 5  
Old 11-19-2010
@Tuxidow: That could be optimized:
Code:
find . -type f +mmin +5 -print | xargs -I{} -n 100 scp -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa_noauth {} myserver.com:/tmp/

See man xargs
# 6  
Old 11-19-2010
I can't run the script as u suggested...

it should go in a loop...after successful copying each file should be moved to a "processed" directory and also log the status of the file move in a report.

is there any other way?
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