i think curl already have extensive options to handle such cases. there are multiple docs with nice explanations too, for example: https://everything.curl.dev

i think curl already have extensive options to handle such cases. there are multiple docs with nice explanations too, for example: https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/downloads/retry.html https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/downloads/retry.html i guess the premise is applicable to other processes which do not implement timeouts (eg: find) themselves