I want to open multiple elinks at regular interval of 6 seconds

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I want to open multiple elinks at regular interval of 6 seconds

#!/bin/sh
for i in 1 2 
do

echo "Looping ... number $i";
elinks  'http://google.com' ; q ; sleep 6; elinks  'http://google.com'; q ; sleep 1800;

done

HOw do I quit 1st elink and open another one , Any command for that ? Manually q or ^C is working , but i want a shell script command

Thanks!!

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Siddharth Dushantha On BEST ANSWER

You can quit elinks by killing it using killall elinks.

Here is the final script:

#!/bin/sh
for i in 1 2 
do
    echo "Looping ... number $i"
    elinks 'http://google.com' &
    sleep 6
    killall elinks

    elinks 'http://google.com' &
    sleep 1800
    killall elinks
done