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clifford227 10-02-2011 02:56 PM
Help needed with simple bash script
 
Hi,

How would I write a script that displays a jpg using xv (I know this part), and then after 10 seconds closes xv, so that bash moves on to the next line of the script?

lugoteehalt 10-02-2011 03:07 PM
Perhaps use 'sleep' to give the 10 second pause and then 'pkill' to kill the process??

colucix 10-02-2011 03:15 PM
Try to launch the process in background, retrieve the Process ID using $!, sleep 10 seconds then kill it:
Code:
xv file.jpg &
pid=$!
sleep 10 && kill -9 $pid

clifford227 10-02-2011 04:28 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by colucix (Post 4488317)
Try to launch the process in background, retrieve the Process ID using $!, sleep 10 seconds then kill it:
Code:
xv file.jpg &
pid=$!
sleep 10 && kill -9 $pid
That worked perfectly, thanks guys :)

linux2001 10-03-2011 10:46 AM
Good mark this thread as SOLVED


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