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I am trying to run a script which takes input from text file and based on the number of entries in it, a command is executed as many number of times. Below is an overview:

cat /tmp/file.txt | while read name
do
<<execute a command using value of $name>>
done

What is happening is sometimes the command executed for particular $name is getting hung due to known issues. Therefore I need in such cases that the command on every value of $name runs only for X number of seconds and if it is not able to complete within that stipulated time, terminate the process and increment loop counter. I was able to make use of sleep and kill but it is terminated the entire loop. I want the next values to be processed in case command gets hung on a row/value. Please advise.

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Sounds like you might want something like timeout. 

timeout 4 <command>
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