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Re: Meaning of --timeout
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Tim Rühsen |
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Re: Meaning of --timeout |
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Sun, 9 Aug 2020 12:50:15 +0200 |
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Hi,
--timeout is explained in `man wget`.
In short: it doesn't stop wget after N seconds - it's a shortcut for
setting --dns-timeout + --connect-timeout + --read-timeout.
For such tasks you can easily use the `timeout` command from GNU coreutils.
Regards, Tim
On 08.08.20 21:05, Peng Yu wrote:
> I want to set the time by which wget must finish. But it seems
> --timeout doesn't do so. If I set it to N, wget can not guarantee to
> finish in N seconds. Could anybody explain why --timeout can not be
> used for this purpose? How to achieve this goal?
>
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