How to run a process with a timeout in Bash?
linux, shell, timeout
Solution
Use the `timeout` command:
timeout 15s command
Note: on some systems you need to install `coreutils`, on others it's missing or has different command line arguments. See an alternate solution posted by @ArjunShankar . Based on it you can encapsulate that boiler-plate code and create your own portable `timeout` script or small C app that does the same thing.
Problem
Possible Duplicate: Bash script that kills a child process after a given timeout Is there a way to write a shell script that would execute a certain command for 15 seconds, then kill the command? I have tried sleep, wait and ping but maybe I am using them wrong.