timed-process(1)
NAME
timed-process - Run background process for limited amount
of time
SYNOPSIS
timed-process [-e exit_status] timeout command [<arg> [<arg> ...]]
DESCRIPTION
- This script runs command for a specified amount of time
and if it doesn't finish, it kills the process. If com_
mand runs and exits before the given timeout, timed-pro cess returns the exit value of command. If command did not exit before timeout seconds, then timed-process will kill the process and returns an exit value of 255, unless
the -e command line option is set, which instructs timedprocess to return a different exit value. This allows the user of timed-process to determine if the process ended normally or was killed.