.TH "timeout" "1" "19 Jul 2001" "netatalk 1.5pre7" "The Netatalk Project"

.SH "NAME"
.LP 
timeout \- Send a signal to a program after a certain time

.SH "SYNTAX"
.LP 
timeout [\-s \fIsignal\fP] \fIseconds\fP \fIprogram\fP [\fIargs\fP]

.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.LP 
\fBtimeout\fR executes a \fIprogram\fP (with arguments \fIargs\fP) and sends a
\fIsignal\fP to it after a certain amount of \fIseconds\fP.

.SH "OPTIONS"
.LP 
.TP 
\fB\-s\fR \fIsignal\fP
Signal to send to the spawned process. This can be a numerical or symbolic ID.
This defaults to \fBTERM\fR.

.SH "EXAMPLES"
.LP
.TP
timeout 10 pap foo.ps
Execute "pap foo.ps" and send a \fBSIGTERM\fR if \fBpap\fR doesn't return
after 10 seconds.
.TP
timeout -s HUP 60 sh
Spawn a shell and send a hangup signal after one minute.
.TP
timeout -s 9 10 evilprog
Execute a program and \fBKILL\fR it if it doesn't quit after 10 seconds.