On Apr 05 2024, "Branden R. Williams" via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
> That’s not an accurate representation of what the command actually does. The > argument after -k MUST be the kill signal code, without the code the command > fails. The manpage and help document agree with what you are saying but the > execution of the program fails. $ timeout -k USR1 1s sleep 10 timeout: invalid time interval ‘USR1’ Try 'timeout --help' for more information. $ timeout -s KILL 1s sleep 10 Killed -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
