timeoutSection: The Netatalk Project (1)Updated: 19 Jul 2001 |
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
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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
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Execute a program and KILL it if it doesn't quit after 10 seconds.