Bash script running a command
From thelinuxwiki
#!/bin/bash ### Run command for given number of seconds then kill it
read -p "How long should I run for? ==> " count_secs
if [ $count_secs -gt 0 ] then ### ### number of seconds greater than zero ###
/my/command &
### ### assume that the PID of the command is $$ ### my_PID=$$ sleep $count_secs kill -15 $my_PID fi