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Re: feature enhancement for 'timeout'
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: feature enhancement for 'timeout' |
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Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:30:42 +0000 |
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On 02/25/2014 04:10 PM, Thomas Sattler wrote:
> Hi there ...
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> How about exporting the DURATION
> to the command's environment?
So you mean for timeout(1) to inspect the env and honor a DURATION there?
Generally we try to avoid having the environment as another configuration
vector,
especially when restricted to a single command where it would provide little
benefit.
Consider:
DURATION=10m
timeout $DURATION command1
timeout $DURATION command2
...
thanks,
Pádraig.