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Re: wget behavior

From Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hpe.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking
Subject Re: wget behavior
Date 2017-02-13 21:58 +0000
Organization Hewlett-Packard Company
Message-ID <o7ta5o$pja$1@news.hpeswlab.net> (permalink)
References (6 earlier) <pan.2017.02.13.20.02.00@somewhere.invalid> <87wpctaltp.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <pan.2017.02.13.20.54.25@somewhere.invalid> <87r331aibn.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <pan.2017.02.13.21.48.24@somewhere.invalid>

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MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> wrote:
> I just ran the command again, this time single-quoting the URL.
> When it got to a point where the data stopped coming, wget stayed in
> the foreground.

Quibble - before you quoted the '&' wget was "always" running in the
background, even before the point where data arrival stalled.  Likely
as not when you were hitting return it was simply scrolling the
terminal display, and wget's updates were overwriting the shell
prompt.

rick jones
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wget behavior Mark A <deeptht69@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 14:52 -0800
  Re: wget behavior Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-12 23:22 +0000
    Re: wget behavior Mark A <deeptht69@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 15:45 -0800
      Re: wget behavior Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-12 23:51 +0000
        Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-12 23:59 +0000
          Re: wget behavior "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2017-02-13 02:09 +0100
          Re: wget behavior Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2017-02-13 01:41 +0000
            Re: wget behavior "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2017-02-13 02:46 +0100
          Re: wget behavior Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-13 09:18 +0000
          Re: wget behavior William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2017-02-13 11:32 +0000
            Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-13 20:02 +0000
              Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-13 20:08 +0000
                Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-13 20:42 +0000
              Re: wget behavior Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-13 20:16 +0000
                Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-13 20:57 +0000
                Re: wget behavior Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-13 21:31 +0000
                Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-13 21:51 +0000
                Re: wget behavior Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hpe.com> - 2017-02-13 21:58 +0000
                Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-14 21:46 +0000
                Re: wget behavior "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2017-02-13 23:37 +0100
                Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-14 21:50 +0000

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