TIMED-PROCESS(1p)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the TIMED-PROCESS(1p) manual page, brought to you by User Contributed Perl Documentation 💖

timed-process — run a background process for a limited amount of time, periodt. 🕒👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This lil script runs command for a specified amount of time. If it doesn't finish by then, it kills the process. no cap. 💀

If command runs and exits before the given timeout, timed-process returns the exit value of command. slay. ✨

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. 👀

• -e exit_status — set this command line option and timed-process will return a different exit value — the exit_status you gave — when it has to kill the process. so you get to choose the drama. 🎀

That way, the user of timed-process can determine if the process ended normally or was killed. fr fr. 🫶

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and that's the tea, bestie 🫖 this page was cooked with perl v5.38.2 and dated 2024-03-07. mwah 💋✨