Re: Q: halt after some time

[Ole Tange]

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 4:13 AM, Taewon <tkang007@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am considering to use a shell var having halt time. when time over the
> halt time, just exit.  I cannot imagine better way  to prevent new job
> starting.
>
> any better idea?

So you want to start parallel, let it run for 10h and the ask it to stop nicely.

One way to do that is to wrap it with parallel:

  doit() { parallel --tag 'echo {};'sleep {} ::: {1..100}; }
  export -f doit
  parallel --timeout 3 --termseq TERM -u doit ::: dummy


/Ole