1 Long: max-time 2 Short: m 3 Arg: <fractional seconds> 4 Help: Maximum time allowed for transfer 5 See-also: connect-timeout 6 Category: connection 7 Example: --max-time 10 $URL 8 Example: --max-time 2.92 $URL 9 Added: 4.0 10 --- 11 Maximum time in seconds that you allow the whole operation to take. This is 12 useful for preventing your batch jobs from hanging for hours due to slow 13 networks or links going down. Since 7.32.0, this option accepts decimal 14 values, but the actual timeout will decrease in accuracy as the specified 15 timeout increases in decimal precision. 16 17 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. 18