Re: [PLUG] ending a process from outside

[Dave Turner <novalis@novalis.org>]

Try this:

http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/

Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> I want to display an image for four seconds (from the shell, although
> any app to do it is fine). Then I want to be able to write something
> like
>
>     $ for f in *.jpg; do disp_for 4 $f; done
>
> and get a slide show.
>
> The slide show is the real goal, but the process terminator widget
> seems useful in other contexts (don't ask me what, just intuition).
>
> I'm not sure how to do this without writing a "real" program. Whatever
> I come up with, I just want to be able to call it from the shell. A
> shell function seems ideal.
>
> Any thoughts on direction?
>
> Again, I know I could write a C or perl program that does a fork,
> waits four seconds in the parent, then kills the child with first
> SIGINT, then SIGKILL. And I know that wouldn't be very hard. But it
> seems there should be a simpler way.



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