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tryauuum on May 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: TIL: timeout in Bash scripts

why didn't he opt to use `timeout --signal=SIGKILL` and instead wrapped everything in extra bash to make it more killable?..

teo_zero on May 26, 2025 [–]

According to TFA you can only kill processes and "until", being a builtin, doesn't spawn any new process.

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