max-time.md (888B)
1 --- 2 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4 Long: max-time 5 Short: m 6 Arg: <seconds> 7 Help: Maximum time allowed for transfer 8 Category: connection timeout 9 Added: 4.0 10 Multi: single 11 See-also: 12 - connect-timeout 13 - retry-max-time 14 Example: 15 - --max-time 10 $URL 16 - --max-time 2.92 $URL 17 --- 18 19 # `--max-time` 20 21 Set the maximum time in seconds that you allow each transfer to take. Prevents 22 your batch jobs from hanging for hours due to slow networks or links going 23 down. This option accepts decimal values (added in 7.32.0). 24 25 If you enable retrying the transfer (--retry) then the maximum time counter is 26 reset each time the transfer is retried. You can use --retry-max-time to limit 27 the retry time. 28 29 The decimal value needs to be provided using a dot (.) as decimal separator - 30 not the local version even if it might be using another separator.