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timeout command not on macOS

See original GitHub issue

Seems like timeout is not available on macOS

wait-for-it.sh  www.google.com:443 --timeout=10 -- echo "its up"
readlink: illegal option -- f
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
./scripts/wait-for-it.sh: line 58: timeout: command not found
wait-for-it.sh: timeout occurred after waiting 10 seconds for www.google.com:443
its up

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deigacommented, Jul 23, 2021

@twistezo This doesn’t really solve the issue, as wait-for-it is supposed to be a standalone executable

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twistezocommented, Jul 22, 2021

brew install coreutils
alias timeout=gtimeout

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