jaytaylor

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# Mac OS-X does not come with the delightfully useful `timeout` program.  Thankfully a rough BASH equivalent can be achieved with only 2 perl statements.
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# Originally found on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/601543/command-line-command-to-auto-kill-a-command-after-a-certain-amount-of-time
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function timeout() { perl -e 'alarm shift; exec @ARGV' "$@"; }

## Example usage:
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