I had the same wish until a year ago, but after I found the 'screen' tool under linux/unix the whole lftp 'experience' has been much cooler :)
Basically this tool allows you to leave lftp (and any other shell-programm) running even when you have to log out.
This is done by:
1. starting a screen session
2. starting lftp in that screen
3. now you can 'detach' from this screen-session & logout
4. login, and 'reattach' to the screen, and you'll see your lftp ist still running as you hadn't logged out :)
But this tool has much more features, for more info have a look at : http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/screen/
btw Alexander, I would like a little new option in the mirror command, sort of '--keep-complete', that doesn't even try to redownload *complete* files (dest.size=source.size) whatever the date of the files.
Ahh sorry, just saw the option '--ignore-time' :=) So the command 'mirror --ignore-time -c' should be it !
and of course many people would be interested in the 'mirror "foo[123]bar*"' extension, allowing globbing of dirs (as long as you cannot give 'params' in an alias...)
Thanks, Laurent
Jonas Jonsson wrote:
Hi..
Have just started to use lftp and have found it really usefull
But now I have spotted a thing that can get really annoying
Let say that I add a directory to the queue and exit bg so that it can continue even when I logout..
And then it strikes my mind that I also want to download another thing
and then I start lftp again, but as I thaught, I can't get the other queue..
So the question is:
Is there a way for me to add a download to a queue, exit and logout, then
some time later I logon and start lftp and be able to add more items to the
queue just like it is the same process, is this possible or am I to crazy to belive that
such thing could work?
/Jonas
