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Old 05-16-2012
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Ok. You would have done better to have asked a complete question at the start. The example I gave you assumed that you started something like a shell script and wanted to time out the parent shell script. firefox is not a shell script, it is a standalone executable that runs in a child process so this method won't fly.

First off, kill [pid] is the way to stop a process. There may be variants of this like pkill for your OS - so what OS and shell are we talking about here?
Fedora and Bash.
# 9  
Old 05-17-2012
try this:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# alarm.sh
sleep $1
pkill firefox
exit 0

usage:
create an alias in your profile
Code:
alias firefox='/path/to/alarm.sh 30 &; /path/to/firefox'

At the command line type firefox. It will start the background process then run firefox.
If you do not want the alarm thing to happen type /path/to/firefox to bypass the alias.
# 10  
Old 05-17-2012
Maybe you already have timeout. This program is more robust. Try typing timeout --help in your terminal.
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