Section (1) timeout
Name
timeout — run a command with a time limit
Synopsis
timeout
[OPTION
] DURATION
COMMAND
[ARG
...]
timeout
[OPTION
]
DESCRIPTION
Start COMMAND, and kill it if still running after DURATION.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
−−preserve−status
-
exit with the same status as COMMAND, even when the
-
command times out
−−foreground
-
when not running timeout directly from a shell prompt,
-
allow COMMAND to read from the TTY and get TTY signals; in this mode, children of COMMAND will not be timed out
−k
,−−kill−after
=DURATION/ -
also send a KILL signal if COMMAND is still running
-
this long after the initial signal was sent
−s
,−−signal
=SIGNAL/ -
specify the signal to be sent on timeout;
-
SIGNAL may be a name like _zsingle_quotesz_HUP_zsingle_quotesz_ or a number; see _zsingle_quotesz_kill
−l
_zsingle_quotesz_ for a list of signals−v
,−−verbose
-
diagnose to stderr any signal sent upon timeout
−−help
-
display this help and exit
−−version
-
output version information and exit
DURATION is a floating point number with an optional suffix: _zsingle_quotesz_s_zsingle_quotesz_ for seconds (the default), _zsingle_quotesz_m_zsingle_quotesz_ for minutes, _zsingle_quotesz_h_zsingle_quotesz_ for hours or _zsingle_quotesz_d_zsingle_quotesz_ for days. A duration of 0 disables the associated timeout.
If the command times out, and −−preserve−status
is not
set, then exit with status 124. Otherwise, exit with the
status of COMMAND. If no signal is specified, send the TERM
signal upon timeout. The TERM signal kills any process that
does not block or catch that signal. It may be necessary to
use the KILL (9) signal, since this signal cannot be caught,
in which case the exit status is 128+9 rather than 124.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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SEE ALSO
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/timeout>
or available locally via: info _zsingle_quotesz_(coreutils) timeout invocation_zsingle_quotesz_
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