redhat man page for timeout

timeout(1)						       The Netatalk Project							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 seconds.

netatalk 1.5pre7						    19 Jul 2001 							timeout(1)