The GNU coreutils timeout command is extremely handy for certain scripting situations, allowing for using the output of a command if it is quick to run, and skipping it if it would take too long.How can I approximate the basic behavior of timeout using only POSIX specified utilities?(I'm thinking it may involve a combination of wait, sleep, kill and who knows what else, but perhaps I'm missing an easier approach.)
POSIX equivalent for GNU timeout?
shell script;posix;timeout