Greeting,
I am looking for a command or a program that can terminate an application after a specified time. Say, I want to run a certain Application for 12 hrs and I want to end it after 12hrs is passed and start another application.
any help is appreciated/Vansky03Code: [Select]@echo off
set time=43200
:loop
cls
IF %time% GTR 0 (
set /a time=%time% - 1
echo %time%
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 > NUL
goto loop
)
start cmd.exe
pause
this will run cmd after 12 hours (43200 seconds)
hmm i smell a virus...vansky03 do you intend to use this for malicious purposes?Try setting up two batch files.

The FIRST will put the SECOND on the scheduler to run in 12 hours (at command). It will also launch your first program.

The second will contain a taskkill command to kill off the first program and then launch the second program.

Batch code does not do date/time arithmetic very well, however with 12 hours you should only need to flip the am/pm indicator and determine if the new time is tomorrow.

Good LUCK.


Quote from: macdad- on July 05, 2008, 06:33:30 PM

hmm i smell a virus...vansky03 do you intend to use this for malicious purposes?

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1. To bring to an end or halt: "His action terminated the most hopeful period of reform in Prussian history" (Gordon A. Craig).
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1. To come to an end: The oil pipeline terminates at a shipping port. Negotiations terminated yesterday. See Synonyms at complete.
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the title says "command or Program that can terminate an application after specified time". "terminate" meaining delete