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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 receive 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 curently support timeouts beyond 2038

AUTHOR
       Written by Padraig Brady.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report timeout bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report	 timeout    translation	   bugs	  to   <http://translationpro‐
       ject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2013 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)

       The full documentation for timeout is maintained as a  Texinfo  manual.
       If  the	info and timeout programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'timeout invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.21		  March 2014			    TIMEOUT(1)
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