freebsd-skq/usr.bin/timeout/timeout.1
Baptiste Daroussin 42148fc49d New BSDL timeout(1) utility compatible with GNU timeout
it fully passes the GNU timeout regression tests, it is written in a mostly
portable way (only signal parsing is relying on non portable structures)

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.Dd July 16, 2014
.Dt TIMEOUT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm timeout
.Nd run a command with a time limit
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl -signal Ar sig | Fl s Ar sig
.Op Fl -preserve-status
.Op Fl -kill-after Ar time | Fl k Ar time
.Op Fl -foreground
.Ao Ar duration Ac
.Ao Ar command Ac
.Ao Ar args ... Ac
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
starts the
.Ar command
with its
.Ar args
and kills if it is still runs after
.Ar duration .
.Bl -tag -width "-k time, --kill-after time"
.It Fl -preserve-status
Always exist with the same status as
.Ar command
even if it times out.
.It Fl -foreground
Do not propagate timeout to the
.Ar command
children.
.It Fl s Ar sig , Fl -signal Ar sig
Speficy the signal to send on timeout by default
.Ar SIGTERM .
.It Fl k Ar time , Fl -kill-after Ar time
Send a second kill if the
.Ar command
is still running after
.Ar time
seconds after the first signal was sent
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr signal 3 ,
.Xr kill 1