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I'd like to automatically kill a command after a certain amount of time. I have in mind an interface like this:
% constrain 300 ./foo args
Which would run "./foo" with "args" but automatically kill it if it's still running after 5 minutes.
It might be...
Started by dreeves on
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$ @(#)Purpose: Run command with timeout monitor @(#)Author: J Leffler @(#)Copyright: (C) JLSS; #include "stderr.h" #define CHILD 0 #define FORKFAIL -1 static const char usestr[] = "[-vV] -t time [-s': tm_out = atoi(optarg); if (tm_out &....
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Can this be done with standard means?
Started by Kuroki Kaze on
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The best would:
@....
time is: 10:32:05.94 Enter the new time:
If you have a command window open and call the commands
you can calculate the execution time for each command by the time info in the prompt.
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Is is possible to print the execution time of a shell command with following combination?
root@hostname:~# "command to execute" && echo "execution time"
Started by jack on
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You could....
time is a built-in command in most shells that writes execution time information to the tty.
Root@hostname:~# time [command]
It also distinguishes between real time used and system time used.
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I'm looking for an easy way to track time I work on a project using the command line. I do
echo "$(date) : Start" >>worktime.txt
When I start working and
echo "$(date) : End" >>worktime.txt
When I stop working. The result is a file of the ...
Started by Kent on
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Wilhelmtell has a great script, if you need to use .
") | getline end_secs total_secs += (end_secs - start_secs) } END { print "Total work time of " total specifies an alternative time/date, instead of now .
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Is there any built-in linux command that allows to output a string that is n times an input string??
Started by GetFree on
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Python >>>var = "string" >>>var*n
Perhaps....
Adrian@Fourier:~$ printf 'HelloWorld\n%.0s' {1..5} HelloWorld HelloWorld HelloWorld HelloWorld HelloWorld adrian@Fourier:~$
Not exactly built in to linux, but if you have python installed. .
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Possible Duplicate:
How do I get ‘real-time’ information back from a subprocess.Popen in python (2.5)
To get the output on UNIX platform in python, I use commands.getoutput('ls')
But this gives me output after the commands has finished executing. For ...
Started by Shadyabhi on
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#!....
This will execute the command and print out the output in real time to the shell.
What you want is the subprocess.call method.
You must make your external command.
Pipe-like interface which you can read as the data comes in .
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What command line applications can I use on OS X to get the movie running time? I would like to be able to do something like this:
$ running_time matrix.avi 136 min
Started by Maciej Konieczny on
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FFMpeg:
ffmpeg -i foo.avi ffmpeg -i foo.avi 2>&1 | grep Duration
Mplayer/Mencoder .
For a suggestion.) Once you've got that, you can create a shell script or alias to run that command with running_time .
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What is the easiest/quickest way to time a command in DOS?
It doesn't have to be super accurate (+/- seconds is okay) since I expect this to take minutes or even 1 hour+. And writing a batch file is fine too. Also, it doesn't need to do calculations on...
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This is very handy for command line scripts that you want to keep track of in log files! Success Mon Mar 06 21:47:01 ....
I am usually using
echo.|time & my_command & echo.|time
when I have nothing else at hand and time.
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Quick question.
If I run a php script from the command-line (through a cron job, "php ./somwthing-sync.php"), am I still bounded to the php max_execution_time and memory_limit?
Thanks
Nathan
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The....
If you look at the doc , its says
max_execution_time integer This sets the maximum time in seconds a script is allowed up the server.
To ghostdog, the time limit is removed, but my guess is the memory limit is till in place.
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How do I execute a command every time after ssh'ing from one machine to another?
e.g
ssh mymachine stty erase ^H
I'd rather just have "stty erase ^H" execute every time after my ssh connection completes.
This command can't simply go into my .zshrc file...
Started by someguy on
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Do you want this command.
It should be exited upon logoff.
The command below the end of your ~/.bashrc.
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