# Installer timelimit avec Homebrew, apt, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de timelimit pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:timelimit
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install timelimit
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install timelimit
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: timelimit from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#timelimit
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ti/timelimit/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:timelimit
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.9.2
- **Résumé source:** Limit a process's absolute execution time
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/timelimit/>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- timelimit (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.9.2
## Historique du projet et usages

timelimit is a small Unix command-line utility that runs another command and terminates it after an absolute time limit, first with a warning signal and then with a kill signal.

### Historique du projet

The official homepage presents timelimit as a process-control utility modelled after the staged signalling pattern used by init during shutdown. It is maintained by Peter Pentchev and developed in the official GitLab repository.

The release archive on the official site lists timelimit 1.0 and later releases through 1.9.2, with source archives, signatures, and downstream Debian and FreeBSD packaging references.

### Historique d'adoption

timelimit entered classic Unix packaging channels because it solves a simple shell problem: bound a command's wall-clock runtime and choose the signals used to stop it.

The input package-manager metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, Nix, and Ubuntu, showing cross-platform package adoption beyond its original release archive. The official release page also links historical Debian snapshots and a FreeBSD port for older releases.

### Modes d'utilisation

Typical use is in scripts, tests, batch jobs, and administrative commands where a child process must not run forever. Compared with an ad hoc shell wrapper, timelimit exposes explicit warning and kill stages.

Its utility overlaps with timeout-style tools, but the official description emphasizes absolute execution time and configurable signals.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

timelimit is package-nerd material because it is a tiny command that package managers keep alive for scripting compatibility. It is the kind of Unix utility people install when a shell pipeline needs one sharp behavior and no framework.

### Chronologie

- 2015: The official GitLab project was created.
- 1.0: The official homepage lists timelimit-1.0 as an older release with source archive, Debian package links, and a FreeBSD port.
- 1.9.2: The official homepage lists timelimit-1.9.2 as the latest release.

### Related projects

- timelimit is related by purpose to POSIX shell process-control patterns and timeout-style command wrappers.

### Sources

- <https://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/timelimit/ - official homepage describes behavior, releases, signatures, Debian links, and FreeBSD port history.>
- <https://gitlab.com/timelimit/timelimit - official GitLab project page, linked from the homepage, identifies the repository and project creation date.>
- input.source_facts.package-manager - package-manager availability lists Homebrew, Debian, Nix, and Ubuntu.


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - timelimit - 1.9.2-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: timelimit from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | simple utility to limit a process's absolute execution time | https://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/timelimit/
- Nix - timelimit: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ti/timelimit/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - timelimit - 1.9.2-2build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: timelimit from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | simple utility to limit a process's absolute execution time | https://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/timelimit/


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/timelimit.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/timelimit.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph