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Pádraig Brady (p-draigbrady) wrote : Re: Incompatible with newer version of GNU timeout

This feature was added in version 8.5
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/c403c31e

One could degrade gracefully like:

    timeout -k 1m 1m true 2>/dev/null && KILL_AFTER="-k 1m"
    timeout $KILL_AFTER 5m git remote update