SSH question

[Andy Green]

Tony Nelson wrote:

> Does backgrounding a task have the same effect?  That is, would:
> 
>     wget -b -c http://blah.blah.com &
> 
> do as well?  I didn't see anything relevent in man bash.

AIUI the task survives the loss of the ssh session, what kills it is the 
next time it tries to print something it gets a nasty signal along the 
lines of "don't know what you think you are printing to, but it isn't 
there any more".  So from this wobbly asertion of half-knowlege, I guess 
if wget never prints anything  again after you start it, it should 
complete okay using & as you suggest.

-Andy