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For your ~/.profile (or whatever): curl --connect-timeout 1 http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt

• ars 13y ago
  Why a connect timeout? And why such a short one?
  • vsbuffalo 13y ago
    So that your ~/.profile loading doesn't hang when your network does. Nothing more frustrating then wanting to get something done quickly in the shell and having it stall.