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-.TH ALARM 1 ALARM
-.SH NAME
-alarm - Schedule an alarm for a program when starting it
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.BR alarm
-.IR DURATION
-.IR COMMAND
-.RI [ ARGS ...]
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-Schedules an
-.BR alarm (3)
-to best triggered after a specified
-.IR DURATION .
-The process than
-.BR execvp (3)
-into
-.IR COMMAND\ ARGS .
-.PP
-This means that
-.IR COMMAND
-will be killed by
-.BR SIGALRM
-after a selected
-.IR DURATION .
-.PP
-.IR DURATION
-must be a non-negative integer, no larger than 18h12m15s.
-Recognised patterns for
-.IR DURATION
-are:
-.TP
-*
-.IR SECONDS [s]
-.TP
-*
-.IR MINUTES m[ SECONDS s]
-.TP
-*
-.IR HOURS h[ MINUTES m][ SECONDS s]
-.SH RATIONALE
-This program is useful when testing programs for a limited
-duration. Especially when running in the background, or
-there is a chance of it locking the computer.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR alarm (3)
-.SH AUTHORS
-Principal author, Mattias Andrée. See the COPYING file for the full
-list of authors.
-.SH LICENSE
-Copyright \(co 2014, 2015 Mattias Andrée
-.br
-License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
-.br
-This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
-.br
-There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
-.SH BUGS
-Please report bugs to https://github.com/maandree/alarm/issues or to
-maandree@member.fsf.org