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A standalone implementation of the timeout command.

macOS does not include the GNU Coreutils timeout command by default. While you can install the full coreutils package via Homebrew, this introduces many unnecessary commands and potential path conflicts.

This project provides a standalone, lightweight timeout command implementation that allows you to use timeout functionality without installing the entire GNU Coreutils suite.

brew tap aisk/tap
brew trust aisk/tap
brew install aisk/tap/timeout

make
sudo cp timeout /usr/local/bin/

# Run command with 5 second timeout
timeout 5s long-running-command

# 2 minute timeout
timeout 2m backup-script.sh

make        # Compile
make clean  # Clean build artifacts
make format # Format code