Timeout on shell command.

[James Brister]

I'd like to have a shell script run a command, but if that command doesn't
finish in X seconds, then the script should kill it, if the command
finishes sooner then the script should immediately continue. Any ideas on
how one could achieve this?

Thanks

James
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James Brister                                           brister at decwrl.dec.com
DEC Western Software Lab.                                 .....!decwrl!brister
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