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The following command line call of timeout (which makes no sense, just for testing reason) does not work as expected. It waits 10 seconds and does not stop the command from working after 3 seconds. Why ?
timeout 3 ls | sleep 10
What your command is doing is running
timeout 3 lsand piping its output tosleep 10. Thesleepcommand is therefore not under the control oftimeoutand will always sleep for 10s.Something like this would give the desired effect.