I saw that in the man. What are the rest of the time besides dns-time, connect-time, read-time? Thanks.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 5:50 AM Tim Rühsen <tim.rueh...@gmx.de> wrote: > 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? > > > > -- Regards, Peng
