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Re: wget behavior

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On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:58:18 +0000, Rick Jones wrote:

> 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

Yes, I see that now.  When the data stopped coming, wget stopped sending 
progress information, and it looked more like a usual, quiet background 
process.

The other point I find interesting is that it seems to have downloaded 
the correct file, even after losing the characters following the '&' char 
in the URL.

-- 
MarkA

In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue.
-- Barack Obama

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  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
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                Re: wget behavior "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2017-02-13 23:37 +0100
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