Calling a program to foreground
David L Norris
dave at webaugur.com
Thu Nov 4 08:18:29 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 09:48 +0530, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> 1. I have invoked wget to recursively download a web directory in the
> background. I would like to see from time time what & how it is doing.
> Is it possible to call it to foreground,check and resend it to
> background again ?
If you close the terminal while wget is running then wget essentially
becomes a daemon. As far as I know you can't reattach it to another
terminal. When detached from a terminal wget redirects output to a
wget-log file.
I know of two options:
1) start wget from within a screen. see "man screen" for usage.
2) "tail -f wget-log" to follow the log file on a new terminal.
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David Norris
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