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30.Dd $Mdocdate: December 22 2022 $
31.Dt TIMEOUT 1
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm timeout
35.Nd run a command with a time limit
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Op Fl k Ar time
39.Op Fl s Ar sig
40.Op Fl -foreground
41.Op Fl -preserve-status
42.Ar duration
43.Ar command
44.Op Ar arg ...
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48utility executes
49.Ar command
50and kills it if it is still running after the
51specified
52.Ar duration .
53If
54.Ar duration
55is 0, the timeout is disabled.
56.Pp
57The options are as follows:
58.Bl -tag -width Ds
59.It Fl k Ar time , Fl -kill-after Ns = Ns Ar time
60Send a second signal,
61.Dv SIGKILL ,
62if the command is still running
63.Ar time
64after the first signal was sent.
65.It Fl s Ar sig , Fl -signal Ns = Ns Ar sig
66Specify the signal to send on timeout, instead of the default
67.Dv SIGTERM .
68.It Fl -foreground
69Do not propagate the timeout signal to children processes.
70.It Fl -preserve-status
71Always exit with the same status as
72.Ar command ,
73even if the timeout was reached.
74.El
75.Sh DURATION FORMAT
76.Ar duration
77and
78.Ar time
79may contain a decimal fraction.
80The value defaults to seconds unless a unit suffix is given.
81.Pp
82The supported unit suffixes are:
83.Pp
84.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
85.It s
86seconds
87.It m
88minutes
89.It h
90hours
91.It d
92days
93.El
94.Sh EXIT STATUS
95If the timeout was not reached or
96.Fl -preserve-status
97was set, the exit status of
98.Ar command
99is returned.
100.Pp
101If the timeout was reached and
102.Fl -preserve-status
103was not set, an exit status of 124 is returned.
104.Pp
105If
106.Ar command
107exited after receiving a signal, the exit status returned is the signal number
108plus 128.
109.Sh SEE ALSO
110.Xr kill 1 ,
111.Xr signal 3
112.Sh HISTORY
113The
114.Nm
115utility first appeared in GNU Coreutils 7.0 and has been available since
116.Ox 7.0 .
117