parrot_timeout(1)

💅 parrot_timeout — the manual page, bestie edition ✨

okay so this is parrot_timeout(1), one of the Cooperative Computing Tools, and honestly? she's a tiny queen with one job. let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

parrot_timeout — changes or resets the main timeout for the current parrot session 🦜

like. that's it. that's her whole thing. she's giving minimalism, she's giving one task done well, and I respect it 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

parrot_timeout <time>

literally just that. one lil argument and she's happy 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕: parrot_timeout changes the main timeout for the current parrot session, and it sets it to <time>. that's the whole vibe.

and if you don't give her a <time>?? 👀 she resets it to the default value. and the default is:

• 5 minutes if you're in an interactive session 💖
• 1 hour if it's a non-interactive session 💙

no cap, that's it. she's lowkey the easiest command in the whole toolkit and honestly? iconic for that 🌈

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

parrot_timeout has no options.

not one. zero. she said "I don't need flags, I am the flag" 😌💅 and honestly, main character energy fr fr 👑

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⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

• On success, returns zero ✅ slay
• On failure, returns non-zero 💀 not slay

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

changing the manager timeout to 5 hours 🕔

like, imagine you're running something that takes a WHILE. same bestie. do this:

% parrot_run tcsh
% parrot_timeout 5h
% ./my_executable
% exit

see how she said 5h? that's 5 hours of "please don't time me out, I'm literally working on it" 🙈

changing it to 30 seconds for one program, then resetting it 🫧

okay so this one's a little sneaky — the prose says 30 seconds but the actual example uses 40m, and I'm just the messenger, so here's exactly what the page shows you 🍓:

% parrot_run tcsh
% parrot_timeout 40m
% ./my_executable
% parrot_timeout
% ./my_second_executable
% exit

notice that second parrot_timeout with nothing after it?? 👀 that's the reset back to the default value, and then ./my_second_executable gets to live its best life with normal timeout vibes ✨

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

The Cooperative Computing Tools are Copyright (C) 2005-2019 The University of Notre Dame. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details. 📜

(ngl, a whole university said "here, take this, it's free, just read COPYING" and that's kind of beautiful 😭💜)

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Cooperative Computing Tools Documentation 📚
• Parrot User Manual 🦜
• parrot_run(1) parrot_cp(1) parrot_getacl(1) parrot_setacl(1) parrot_mkalloc(1) parrot_lsalloc(1) parrot_locate(1) parrot_timeout(1) parrot_whoami(1) parrot_mount(1) parrot_md5(1) parrot_package_create(1) parrot_package_run(1) chroot_package_run(1)

(yes she links to herself in SEE ALSO. self-love queen. we stan 💖)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one shipped as CCTools 8.0.0 DEVELOPMENT — go forth, set your timeouts, reset them when you're done, and remember: you're doing amazing sweetie 💅✨🦋🎀💖