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Is there a way to first try the 'clean' timeout, and if it does not work, use the 'dirty' way? For example timeout -s 9 2 timeout 1 myscript - after 1 second kill with sigterm, after 2 seconds kill with -9. Will this work?

Erel Segal-Halevi
– Erel Segal-Halevi

2019-03-11 14:14:45 +00:00
Commented Mar 11, 2019 at 14:14
Yes that should work. As you guess the outer timeout will intervene 1 second after the inner (softer) one tries.

Philip Couling
– Philip Couling

2019-03-11 14:32:39 +00:00
Commented Mar 11, 2019 at 14:32

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