Name
timeout — Send a signal to a program after a certain time
SYNTAX
timeout [-s signal] seconds program [args]
DESCRIPTION
timeout executes a program (with arguments args)
and sends a signal to it after a certain
amount of seconds.
OPTIONS
- -s signal
Signal to send to the spawned process. This can be a numerical
or symbolic ID. This defaults to TERM.
EXAMPLES
- timeout 10 pap foo.ps
Execute "pap foo.ps" and send a SIGTERM
if pap doesn't return after 10
seconds.
- timeout -s HUP 60 sh
Spawn a shell and send a hangup signal after one minute.
- timeout -s 9 10 evilprog
Execute a program and KILL it
if it doesn't quit after 10 seconds.