netpipes 4.2
If -nokill is specified timelimit will wait for the child to exit until the time limit expires. If the time expires before the child process exits then timelimit will exit, leaving the child in the background.
-v adds some diagnostic messages.
time is an integer in seconds, unless you put a suffix on it. m is minutes; h is hours; d is days; M is months (30 days); w is weeks; Y is years (365 days).
timelimit 5m faucet 3000 --out cat time-sensitive-info
Find 'em. Send 'em in. I'll teach them to gnaw on my code!
Francis Liu <fxl@pulse.itd.uts.edu.au> suggested that I modify timelimit so that it doesn't SEGV when invoked with no arguments.
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