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You posted in the wrong place, but hopefully that will be corrected.

Meantime, one solution is Re: Backticks and SIGALRM. There are other possible solutions in that same thread.

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Re^2: How to timeout if a call to an external program takes too long
by deivakumar (Initiate) on Aug 30, 2007 at 05:28 UTC

    That is just a perfect solution for me.

    Thanks a bunch to all who responded.

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