A command which runs a specified command for a given time, and then terminates it.
See http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/timeout.1.html
Questions tagged [timeout]
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Command for Idle timout
timeout is nice for killing a command that does not complete within n seconds.
Is there a similar command to kill a command that has not printed anything on stdout for n seconds (and which therefore is probably stuck)?
Edit:
socat -T120…
Ole Tange
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how to display command output on terminal using timeout
if i do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null it show the results on terminal. but i want to run this command for a specific period of time and show the results. for example, i tried
timeout 10s dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nul but i get no stdout / stderr on…
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timeout command and pipe - order of precedence
I need to test receipt of TCP data. I may not use iperf.
The requirements are saying that I should create a TCP server to which will someone will send random data. I need to count the number of bytes received.
I have been told to use the following:…
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Execute command for x seconds?
Possible Duplicate:
Run a command for a specified time and then abort if time exceeds
Is there a command which allows me to execute another command for at most x seconds?
Imagined example: runonlyxseconds -s 5
mark
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run a programm with timeout sending multiple signals in different times
i need to run a programm with timeout with multiple time limits and different signals for the limits.
for example:
run nano with timeout sending SIGTERM after 5s and after 10s SIGKILL
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