redhat man page for timeout

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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)
Related Man Pages
timeout(1) - centos
timeout(1) - freebsd
timeout(1) - php
timeout(1) - plan9
timeout(1) - xfree86
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