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uscheduleruntimelimit - start child and kill it after some time .LINE .section SYNOPSIS uscheduleruntimelimit LIMIT CHILD [...] .section 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. .manlink uschedule.html uschedule(1) command for this. .section HISTORY This option was added for uschedule 0.7.1. .section EXAMPLES .subsection uscheduleruntimelimit 6 sh -c 'sleep 30' will exit after 6 seconds. .subsection uscheduleruntimelimit 6m sh -c 'sleep 30' will exit after 30 seconds. .section AUTHOR Uwe Ohse, uwe@ohse.de .section "SEE ALSO" .manlink uschedule.html uschedule(1) , .manlink intro.html uschedule_intro(7) . .HTML <!-- .paragraph The homepage may be more up-to-date, see

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