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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 the command is still run- ning after duration, it is killed. By default, SIGTERM is sent. The special duration, zero, signifies no limit. Therefore a signal is never sent if duration is 0. The options are as follows: --preserve-status Exit with the same status as command, even if it times out and is killed. --foreground Do not propagate timeout to the children of command. -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 are non-negative integer or real (decimal) numbers, with an optional unit-specifying suffix. Values without an explicit unit 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 refers to a non-existing program, the exit status returned is 127. If command is an otherwise invalid program, the exit status returned is 126. If an invalid parameter is passed to -s or -k, the exit status returned 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 Ports 11.2 March 28, 2018 FreeBSD Ports 11.2
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