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NAME
uscheduleruntimelimit - start child and kill it after some time
SYNOPSIS
uscheduleruntimelimit LIMIT CHILD [...]
DESCRIPTION
uscheduleruntimelimit starts CHILD and sends it a TERM signal after the
LIMIT has been reached. 5 seconds later a KILL signal is sent.
uscheduleruntimelimit exits as soon as the CHILD exits, preserving it's
exit code.
LIMIT is given as number and by default interpreted as seconds. To
change it's meaning to minutes (or hours, days) append a m (or h, d)
character. uschedule(1) command for this.
HISTORY
This option was added for uschedule 0.7.1.
EXAMPLES
uscheduleruntimelimit 6 sh -c 'sleep 30'
will exit after 6 seconds.
uscheduleruntimelimit 6m sh -c 'sleep 30'
will exit after 30 seconds.
AUTHOR
Uwe Ohse, uwe@ohse.de
SEE ALSO
uschedule(1), uschedule_intro(7).
The homepage may be more up-to-date, see
http://www.ohse.de/uwe/uschedule.html.
uschedule 0.7.1 uschedulecp(1)