On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 14:18, Parameshwara Bhat wrote: > Hello List, > > I need a quick help with two things, > > 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 ? > > 2.Even in a recursive download, is it possible to leave off in the > middle and continue from there after some time ? > > Man page is not fully clear to me.Thanks in advance. > > Parameshwara Bhat > 1. To recall to forground a backgrounded process run #jobs [1] <some background job> [2] <some background job> . . This will give you a list of jobs currently running in the background. They will have numbers such as 1, 2 etc. To access each job, just put a % sign infront of their number. To forground job 2 for example, run fg %2 To background again, as long as the process is still running, just type # ^Z (control key and Z) to suspend the process. eg # updatedb & #jobs [1]- Running updatedb & #fg %1 ^Z [1]+ Stopped updatedb # bg [1]+ updatedb & Could you just not do a listing of the directory tree or size thereof to see how it is going? for example, in the console window run: #while : ; do du -sk <download dir>; sleep 10; done or #watch du -sk <download dir> or whatever command you like to use for a progress update? ta, gb
