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.