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TIMEOUT(1)			 User Commands			    TIMEOUT(1)

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 'HUP' or a number; see 'kill -l' for a
	      list of signals

       --help
	      display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       DURATION is a floating point number with an optional  suffix:  's'  for
       seconds (the default), 'm' for minutes, 'h' for hours or 'd' for days.

       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 sig‐
       nal 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.

BUGS
       Some platforms don't currently support timeouts beyond the year 2038.

AUTHOR
       Written by Padraig Brady.

REPORTING BUGS
       GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report	timeout	  translation	 bugs	 to    <http://translationpro‐
       ject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  ©  2017  Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU
       GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free  to	change	and  redistribute  it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       kill(1)

       Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/timeout>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) timeout invocation'

GNU coreutils 8.28		 October 2017			    TIMEOUT(1)
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