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read with timeout
  • From: "Berge, Harry ten" <berge@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:13:29 +0200
  • Message-id: <8C6ADF4772B7D511A3E40008C7BB878A809A87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi,

I want to do a 'read NUMBER' in a bash script, but with a timeout
functionality. So basically I want to do a 'read NUMBER --timeout=10'. So
after 10 seconds the read will continue...

Is there something like this and/or I can I do this?


Kind regards,

Harry ten Berge
Test Engineer
Holland Institute of Traffic Technology HITT B.V.
P.O. box 717
Apeldoorn
email :berge@xxxxxxx
<http://www.hitt.nl>
tel : +31 555432537
fax : +31 555432554



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