NAME

       timed-process - Run background process for limited amount of time

SYNOPSIS

           timed-process [-e exit_status] timeout command [<arg> [<arg> ...]]

DESCRIPTION

       This script runs command for a specified amount of time and if it doesn't finish, it kills the process.
       If command runs and exits before the given timeout, timed-process returns the exit value of command.  If
       command did not exit before timeout seconds, then timed-process will kill the process and returns an exit
       value of 255, unless the -e command line option is set, which instructs timed-process to return a
       different exit value.  This allows the user of timed-process to determine if the process ended normally
       or was killed.