On 10 November 2010 13:06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/10/2010 02:50 PM, suvayu ali wrote: >> On 10 November 2010 12:28, Robert Moskowitz<rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
