Execute a command with a timeout

2010-12-29 1 min read bash Learning
<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ubuntu_logo.svg">Wikipedia</a> </dd> </dl> Execute a command with a timeout 1 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> &nbsp;timelimit -t100 somecommand </div> </td> </tr> I found this in Ubuntu repos, and consider it better than timeout. * View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites * View all commands by CodSpirit commandlinefu.com by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com) URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Command-line-fu/~3/h72xZsssE4o/execute-a-command-with-a-timeout