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Although GNU coreutils includes a timeout command, sometimes that’s not available. There are a lot of ham fisted approaches by very intelligent people. The “right” way to do this is with the ALRM signal. That’s what it’s for. So rather than reinvent the wheel, here’s a correctly working timeout function. This works in at least bash and zsh . cleanup () { [[ -z…
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