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TIMEOUT(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual TIMEOUT(1) NAME timeout - run a command with a time limit SYNOPSIS timeout [-fp] [-k time] [-s signal] duration command [arg ...] DESCRIPTION The timeout utility executes command and kills it if it is still running after the specified duration. If duration is 0, the timeout is disabled. The options are as follows: -f, --foreground Do not propagate the timeout signal to children processes. -k time, --kill-after=time Send a second signal, SIGKILL, if the command is still running time after the first signal was sent. -p, --preserve-status Always exit with the same status as command, even if the timeout was reached. -s signal, --signal=signal A non-negative decimal number or symbolic signal name specifying the signal to send on timeout, instead of the default SIGTERM. DURATION FORMAT duration and time may contain a decimal fraction. The value defaults to seconds unless a unit suffix is given. The supported unit suffixes are: s seconds m minutes h hours d days EXIT STATUS The timeout utility may return one of the following statuses: 124 The time limit expired and the -p flag was not set. 126 The command was found but could not be executed. 127 The command was not found. Otherwise, timeout returns the exit status of the command. SEE ALSO kill(1), signal(3) STANDARDS The timeout utility is compliant with the specification. HISTORY The timeout utility first appeared in GNU Coreutils 7.0 and has been available since OpenBSD 7.0. FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 June 16, 2024 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8