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.TH TIMEOUT "1" "March 2012" "GNU coreutils 8.16" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
timeout \- run a command with a time limit
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B timeout
[\fIOPTION\fR] \fIDURATION COMMAND \fR[\fIARG\fR]...
.br
.B timeout
[\fIOPTION\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
Start COMMAND, and kill it if still running after DURATION.
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.HP
\fB\-\-foreground\fR
.IP
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.
.HP
\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-kill\-after\fR=\fIDURATION\fR
.IP
also send a KILL signal if COMMAND is still running
this long after the initial signal was sent.
.HP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-signal\fR=\fISIGNAL\fR
.IP
specify the signal to be sent on timeout.
SIGNAL may be a name like 'HUP' or a number.
See 'kill \fB\-l\fR' for a list of signals
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
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.
.PP
If the command times out, 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 signal kills any process that does not
block or catch that signal.  For other processes, it may be necessary to
use the KILL (9) signal, since this signal cannot be caught.  If the
KILL (9) signal is sent, the exit status is 128+9 rather than 124.
.SH BUGS
Some platforms don't curently support timeouts beyond 2038
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Padraig Brady.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report timeout bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
.br
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
.br
Report timeout translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
.BR attributes (5)
for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp
.TS
box;
cbp-1 | cbp-1
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE 
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Availability	file/gnu-coreutils
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Stability	Uncommitted
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.PP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
kill(1)
.PP
The full documentation for
.B timeout
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B timeout
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info coreutils \(aqtimeout invocation\(aq
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.


.SH NOTES

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