SSH question

[Ed Greshko]

M.Lewis wrote:
> 
> I'm sure the answer to this question is incredibly simple and I have
> looked through the archives, but I really don't know what to look for
> (hence the poor subject).
> 
> I want to ssh into a remote machine, start a download (say wget -c
> xyz.iso), then close my ssh session, but still maintain the download
> while I'm no longer logged into the remote machine.
> 
> Can this be done? If so, how?

I find it easiest to use wget with the -b parameter along with nohup as in:

nohup wget -b -c http://blah.blah.com

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