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+#Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.shell
+#From: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare)
+#Subject: Re: timeout -t <sec> <unix command> (Re: How to give rsh a shorter timeout?)
+#Message-ID: <EoBxrs.223@root.co.uk>
+#Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:23:52 GMT
+
+#
+# Conversion to bash v2 syntax done by Chet Ramey <chet@po.cwru.edu
+# UNTESTED
+#
+
+prog=${0##*/}
+usage="usage: $prog [-signal] [timeout] [:interval] [+delay] [--] <command>"
+
+SIG=-TERM # default signal sent to the process when the timer expires
+timeout=60 # default timeout
+interval=15 # default interval between checks if the process is still alive
+delay=2 # default delay between posting the given signal and
+ # destroying the process (kill -KILL)
+
+while :
+do
+ case $1 in
+ --) shift; break ;;
+ -*) SIG=$1 ;;
+ [0-9]*) timeout=$1 ;;
+ :*) EXPR='..\(.*\)' ; interval=`expr x"$1" : "$EXPR"` ;;
+ +*) EXPR='..\(.*\)' ; delay=`expr x"$1" : "$EXPR"` ;;
+ *) break ;;
+ esac
+ shift
+done
+
+case $# in
+0) echo "$prog: $usage" >&2 ; exit 2 ;;
+esac
+
+(
+ for t in $timeout $delay
+ do
+ while (( $t > $interval ))
+ do
+ sleep $interval
+ kill -0 $$ || exit
+ t=$(( $t - $interval ))
+ done
+ sleep $t
+ kill $SIG $$ && kill -0 $$ || exit
+ SIG=-KILL
+ done
+) 2> /dev/null &
+
+exec "$@"