On 15/12/2025 03:08, Collin Funk wrote:
I agree that this behavior isn't obvious. :)
We should probably better document timeout's interactions with shell constructs, as it's a common question and tricky to see what's going on: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/727895/capture-process-signal-terminated-message-output-in-shell-pipeline https://superuser.com/questions/1260918/bash-pipeline-signal-propagation-how-does-it-work/1261201#1261201 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68479811/why-does-usr-bin-timeout-kill-the-entire-pipe/68482748#68482748 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/231526/timeout-breaking-pipes-and-wc/751212#751212 I'll see can I come up with something for the info docs cheers, Padraig
