Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7 From: MarkA Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: wget behavior Date: 12 Feb 2017 23:59:48 GMT Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <874lzzc7v0.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <2ff86561-47d6-4f3a-9436-d3c7c6ad864b@googlegroups.com> <87poinarxi.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p7ece6f249debe22170baaf5c47e48bbc360eb74059983c14.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) X-Received-Bytes: 2372 X-Received-Body-CRC: 784970252 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.networking:3956 On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 23:51:53 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > Mark A writes: >> Richard Kettlewell wrote: >>> Mark A writes: >>>> I'm using wget to download some large files from a download server, >>>> after several failed attempts to use Firefox's download function. I >>>> can use the Firefox download function to get the URL of the source, >>>> then paste that into wget, running in a Gnome terminal window. wget >>>> starts and shows its progress bar across the bottom of the window. >>>> If I press "Enter", the progress bar freezes, moves up one line, and >>>> is immediately replaced by a new one that continues to update. >>>> >>>> After a few minutes, the progress bar stops updating. If I press >>>> "Enter", I get the command prompt. "jobs" shows wget still running, >>>> now in the background. >>> >>> I expect that there’s an ‘&’ in the URL and you didn’t quote it. >> >> No, no such characters in the URL. > > Well, wget doesn’t generally put itself into the background for no > reason. Hence my puzzlement. Yet, there it is, with a big fat " &" after it, when I type "jobs". > >> A few '%'s, though. Besides, a malformed URL would cause it to fail >> immediately. > > ‘&’ doesn’t make the URL malformed. It does if it causes the software to misinterpret the URL. -- MarkA You can safely assume that you have created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -- Anne Lamott