Package: timeout Version: 1.11-6.1 Severity: wishlist Please support more time formats, like tmpreaper does. Here's a quote From the manual:
The <time_spec> should be a number, defaulting to hours,
optionally suffixed by one character: âdâ for days, âhâ for
hours, âmâ for minutes, or âsâ for seconds.
It would be nice to be able to call timeout like this:
timeout 6h foo
instead of:
timeout 21600 foo
It's more readable and quite useful for very long lasting nightly cron
jobs like backups.
I guess the time format parsing can be easily pasted from tmpreaper.
Thanks.
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