timelimit

Limit a process's absolute execution time with a hard timeout

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Limit a process's absolute execution time

timelimit

Run a command with a 30-second timeout$ timelimit -t 30 ./long_running_script.sh

Set a 5-minute timeout with a warning at 4 minutes$ timelimit -t 300 -s SIGTERM ./backup_job.sh

Limit a compilation process to 10 minutes$ timelimit -t 600 make build