how to stop execution of a script after one hour

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have a shell script that writes some data in a file. I want to stop the script after one hour from start of execution using "EXIT 1".
how to do it. I don't want to use CRONTAB.

2

Would be easier if you'd post what you have in your script

3

Should work with ksh,bash:

my_pid=$$
trap "exit 1" USR1
( sleep 3600; kill -USR1 $my_pid ) &

# time consuming stuff here
4

I have the same query. please find my script below..

find . -type f +mmin +5 > /tmp/test_file

while read FNAME
do
scp -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa_noauth $FNAME myserver.com:/tmp/

done < /tmp/test_file

if there some 1000 files in the folder, the script pushes the files one by one and sometimes goes into a hang state after 1 hour. so is there a way to exit the script after 1 hour....
p.s the above script is just the core part of a big script which is designed for special purposes...

5

@Tuxidow: That could be optimized:

find . -type f +mmin +5 -print | xargs -I{} -n 100 scp -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa_noauth {} myserver.com:/tmp/

See man man xargs (POSIX)

6

I can't run the script as u suggested...

it should go in a loop...after successful copying each file should be moved to a "processed" directory and also log the status of the file move in a report.

is there any other way?