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kill app in a given timeframe, bash script

John Boro

3/27/23, 8:22 AM

I'm new at bash and I am trying to make this, here is a pseudo code:

id= "pidof rhytmbox" (rhytmbox changes pid everytime i start it)

echo "Input time: "
read time

sleep $time
kill $pid

can you assist me?

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bash

scripts

kill

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John Boro

3/27/23, 8:51 AM

pid=$(pidof rhythmbox)
echo $pid

echo "Enter time: "
read time
sleep $time
kill $pid

This one worked!

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vidarlo

3/27/23, 8:37 AM

I'll provide some hints.

Bash has some ways to assign the output of a command to a variable.

pid=$(pidof top)
pid=`pidof top`

For the rest you're basically on the right track. You should probably validate that the user is in fact entering a integer, and not some other text such as half an hour.

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John Boro

3/27/23, 8:50 AM

thank you --- pid=$(pidof rhythmbox) echo $pid echo "Enter time: " read time sleep $time kill $pid

vidarlo

3/27/23, 8:52 AM

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bac0n

3/27/23, 7:51 PM

If you intend to run your command with a time limit you can make use of timeout:

#!/bin/bash

read -r -p \
    "Input time in minutes: " duration

[[ ! $duration =~ [^0-9] ]] && \
    timeout ${duration}m setsid rhytmbox &>/dev/null &

read has a prompt option which is shown before attempting to read an input. You can use a regex statement to ensure user input only contain digits. Now, I usually want to put long-running application in the background in case I close the terminal, you can accomplish this with setsid command &

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