1.\" Copyright (c) 2014 Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd July 16, 2014 28.Dt TIMEOUT 1 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm timeout 32.Nd run a command with a time limit 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Op Fl -signal Ar sig | Fl s Ar sig 36.Op Fl -preserve-status 37.Op Fl -kill-after Ar time | Fl k Ar time 38.Op Fl -foreground 39.Ao Ar duration Ac 40.Ao Ar command Ac 41.Ao Ar args ... Ac 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43.Nm 44starts the 45.Ar command 46with its 47.Ar args 48and kills if it is still runs after 49.Ar duration . 50.Bl -tag -width "-k time, --kill-after time" 51.It Fl -preserve-status 52Always exits with the same status as 53.Ar command 54even if it times out. 55.It Fl -foreground 56Do not propagate timeout to the 57.Ar command 58children. 59.It Fl s Ar sig , Fl -signal Ar sig 60Speficy the signal to send on timeout by default 61.Ar SIGTERM . 62.It Fl k Ar time , Fl -kill-after Ar time 63Send a second kill if the 64.Ar command 65is still running after 66.Ar time 67seconds after the first signal was sent 68.Sh SEE ALSO 69.Xr signal 3 , 70.Xr kill 1 71