backgrounding a running wget job

[Farhan]

Hi.
If you want to do this process, type screen. start your wget job, hit control a then d log out, and when you want to bring your wget job up again, in the console type screen -x or -r respectivly.
personally, I use screen -x to bring my screen up, just because.
On 7/3/2006 at 23:40 Gregory Nowak said
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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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