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>.

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