Timeout command on Mac OS X?

Question

Is there an alternative for the timeout command on Mac OSx. The basic requirement is I am able to run a command for a specified amount of time.

e.g:

Answer 1

You can do ping -t 10 google.com >nul

the >nul gets rid of the output. So instead of showing 64 BYTES FROM 123.45.67.8 BLAH BLAH BLAH it'll just show a blank newline until it times out. -t flag can be changed to any number.