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TIMEOUT(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual TIMEOUT(1) NAME timeout -- run a command with a time limit SYNOPSIS timeout [--signal sig | -s sig] [--preserve-status] [--kill-after time | -k time] [--foreground] <duration> <command> <args ...> DESCRIPTION timeout starts the command with its args. If command is still running after duration, it is killed. By default, SIGTERM. is sent. --preserve-status Always exits with the same status as command even if it times out. --foreground Do not propagate timeout to the command chil- dren. -s sig, --signal sig Specify the signal to send on timeout. By default, SIGTERM. is sent. -k time, --kill-after time Send a SIGKILL signal if command is still running after time after the first signal was sent. DURATION FORMAT duration and time can be integer or decimal numbers. Values without unit symbols are interpreted as seconds. Supported unit symbols are: s seconds m minutes h hours d days EXIT STATUS If the timeout was not reached, the exit status of command is returned. If the timeout was reached and --preserve-status is set, the exit status of command is returned. If --preserve-status is not set, an exit status of 124 is returned. If command exits after receiving a signal, the exit status returned is the signal number plus 128. If command is an invalid command, the exit status returned is 126. If command is a non existing command, the exit status returned is 127. If an invalid parameter is passed to -s or -k, the exit status return is 125. SEE ALSO kill(1), signal(3) HISTORY The timeout command first appeared in FreeBSD 10.3. AUTHORS Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> and Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD 11.2 February 20, 2017 FreeBSD 11.2
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