Background task to download FC14 isos

suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 21:32:41 UTC 2010


On 10 November 2010 13:06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 02:50 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
>> On 10 November 2010 12:28, Robert Moskowitz<rgm at htt-consult.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Well I want to grab the FC14 isos, and I am not home for a few days.  I
>>> can't do it in a SSH session to a server at home as I will drop my
>>> session before all the images are downloaded.
>>>
>> wget -b
>
> I guess I have never really been clear about 'background'.  This will
> continue to run even when the I drop the connection that spawned it?  I
> seem to recall going to close a terminal window getting messages about
> background tasks and if I want to kill them as part of closing the window.
>

It is immune to hangups. You can check by running ps -uf.

> Plus I have not figured out how to wildcard the wget for the FC CD
> isos.  When I tried this for FC13, the only thing (at least for a couple
> of mirrors I tried) the only file really in the
> .../fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/ directory was the index.txt, so
> this would mean 5 parallel wget tasks.
>

There is a subtlety here, wget supports wildcards for ftp urls but not
http. Look up the man page, I think it is covered under how to specify
urls. Its been a long time since I looked it up.


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Suvayu

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