[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hiya! > > i'd like to have wget forking into background as default > (via .wgetrc) but sometimes, eg. in shell scripts, i need > wget to stay in foreground, so the script knows when the > file is completely downloaded (well, after wget exits =) > is it possible to implement such a feature? > thanks in advance, wget rocks! > > greets, alex
you can get wget running in background by adding `&' at the end, i.e. wget http://somewhere/file.txt & if you don't add `&' wget will run in foreground, then you still can `ctrl+z' and `bg' to send it to background or simply close the terminal in which wget is running (it will also send wget in background and even will send all messages to `wget-log' log file)... well, all this is written somewhere in the docs I'm sure :) P! Vladi. -- Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personal home page at http://www.biscom.net/~cade DataMax Ltd. http://www.datamax.bg Too many hopes and dreams won't see the light...
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