Ping for 60 seconds
From man ping
-w deadline
Specify a timeout, in seconds, before ping exits regardless of
how many packets have been sent or received. In this case ping
does not stop after count packet are sent, it waits either for
deadline expire or until count probes are answered or for some
error notification from network.
ex.
$ time ping -w60 192.168.1.65 &>/dev/null
real 1m0.001s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.000s
The timeout command can be used also here. which is from Coreutils package in Linux. The command would be:
timeout 60 ping google.com
that's it.
Note: here you can run any command with a time limit for execution.