Mike <michael.h.williamson <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, I have a question. > > Why is the "timeout" command disappearing from recent Linux > distributions? > I am referring to the command that allows a time limit to be set for > another command: > > # timeout 10 ftp ...
You may be interested to know that the next coreutils release (post 6.12, currently slated to be named coreutils 7.0) will include a timeout command. You can search the bug-coreutils archives for links to snapshots that already have this command available to replace the version dropped in your distro. -- Eric Blake
