dohzya / timeout

Re-implementation of the Linux's “timeout” command

Timeout

Re-implementation of the Linux's “timeout” command

Runs the specified command but kill-it after the specified timeout.

By default the SIGTERM is sent to the process.

Use

Basic version

timeout 3 /my/command/to/run arg1 arg2

With custom time

Here: 3 minutes

timeout 3m /my/command/to/run arg1 arg2

Accepted modifiers: “s”, “m”, “h”, “d”

Specifying the signal to use

Here: SIGKILL

timeout -s 9 3 /my/command/to/run arg1 arg2

Accepted signals:

• “1” or “HUP”
• “2” or “INT”
• “3” or “QUIT”
• “4” or “ILL”
• “5” or “TRAP”
• “6” or “ABRT”
• “7” or “BUS”
• “8” or “FPE”
• “9” or “KILL”
• “10” or “USR1”
• “11” or “SEGV”
• “12” or “USR2”
• “13” or “PIPE”
• “14” or “ALRM”
• “15” or “TERM”
• “17” or “CHLD”
• “18” or “CONT”
• “19” or “STOP”
• “20” or “TSTP”
• “21” or “TTIN”
• “22” or “TTOU”
• “23” or “URG”
• “24” or “XCPU”
• “25” or “XFSZ”
• “26” or “VTALRM”
• “27” or “PROF”
• “28” or “WINCH”
• “29” or “IO”
• “31” or “SYS”