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Re: no way to stop the time bomb "sleep 100; echo BOOM"?
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Chet Ramey |
Subject: |
Re: no way to stop the time bomb "sleep 100; echo BOOM"? |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:24:07 -0500 |
> Fellas, I was a bit disturbed to find that there is apparently no way
> to stop the ticking time bomb:
>
> $ sleep 100;echo cant stop the time bomb... BOOM
Because they're two separate commands. You need to figure out a way to
have them treated as a unit. Something like
( sleep 100; echo ...)
or
sleep 100 && echo ...
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