timeout

timeout(1)                         Netatalk                         timeout(1)

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  sec-
              onds.




2.0.2                             19 Jul 2001                       timeout(1)