On 10 November 2010 13:06, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
On 11/10/2010 02:50 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
On 10 November 2010 12:28, Robert Moskowitzrgm@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.