backgrounding a running wget job

[Tyler Littlefield]

Greg,
I use screen all the time,
I just  start screen, start wget, and then exit my ssh client.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 6:41 PM
Subject: backgrounding a running wget job


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> Hi all.
> 
> I have a running wget job, which I started interactively, without the
> - -b flag, so I could look at the progress. However, I now need to put
> the wget job into the background, so I can logout. Is there a safe way
> to do this while it's downloading? I was hoping I can use screen here,
> but after reviewing the screen man page, it looks like screen can
> attach to, and detach from existing screen sessions, rather then a
> simple wget running from bash on the console itself if that makes
> sense. Am I wrong here, and can screen actually do what I want? Is
> there another way to do what I want to do?
> 
> When I log back in, I'd like to be able to bring wget back into the
> foreground again, so I can once more keep an eye, or should I say an
> ear, on the progress. Any tips would be much appreciated. Thanks in
> advance.
> 
> Greg
> 
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