inputkill

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

NAME

inputkill − run a command until standard input is closed

SYNOPSIS

inputkill [options] <command> [arguments ...]

DESCRIPTION

inputkill runs a given command until standard input is closed. inputkill passes on all file descriptors except for standard input; command is given no standard input.

inputkill is useful for promptly exiting a program ran via ssh when the connection is closed. For example, ssh host inputkill sleep 60 runs the command sleep on the computer named host until either sixty seconds elapse or the ssh connection is terminated.

The argument "--" disables argument parsing for all proceeding arguments; e.g. "inputkill ls -l" will pass "-l" to inputkill and run "ls", whereas "inputkill -- ls -l" will run "ls -l".

OPTIONS

−V, −−version

Display version information.

-?, −−help

Display a summary of command line options.

SEE ALSO

ssh(1), rsh(1)

inputkill is part of mswatch(1); mswatch website: http://mswatch.sf.net/

AUTHOR

Written by Chris Frost <chris@frostnet.net>.