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In Bash this will set a time limit of 10 seconds for the slowcommand

timeout 10 slowcommand

I'm wondering how I could get the same behavior, if I had to call sudo in order to run slowcommand, i.e.:

timeout 10 sudo slowcommand

This will timelimit on sudo, not on the slowcommand... Is there an elegant way to do this while using sudo?

Edit: Let's assume timeout is not permitted to be run with sudo.

In Bash this will set a time limit of 10 seconds for the slowcommand

timeout 10 slowcommand

I'm wondering how I could get the same behavior, if I had to call sudo in order to run slowcommand, i.e.:

timeout 10 sudo slowcommand

This will timelimit on sudo, not on the slowcommand... Is there an elegant way to do this while using sudo?

In Bash this will set a time limit of 10 seconds for the slowcommand

timeout 10 slowcommand

I'm wondering how I could get the same behavior, if I had to call sudo in order to run slowcommand, i.e.:

timeout 10 sudo slowcommand

This will timelimit on sudo, not on the slowcommand... Is there an elegant way to do this while using sudo?

Edit: Let's assume timeout is not permitted to be run with sudo.

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How to use the bash timeout function for commands requiring sudo?

In Bash this will set a time limit of 10 seconds for the slowcommand

timeout 10 slowcommand

I'm wondering how I could get the same behavior, if I had to call sudo in order to run slowcommand, i.e.:

timeout 10 sudo slowcommand

This will timelimit on sudo, not on the slowcommand... Is there an elegant way to do this while using sudo?