[olug] BASH shell programming question.

[Bob McCoy]

Complete sidebar ...

The wget command below doesn't work because there is a new version ok
Knoppix!  2003-06-06 -> 2003-07-26.  

"Yea!"
"And there was much rejoicing."

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Jeff Hinrichs
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:47 PM
To: Jay at RebootTheUser.com; olug at olug.org
Subject: Re: [olug] BASH shell programming question.


Jay Swackhamer said:
>
>
> to get rid of all output
>
> MYCOMMAND > /dev/null 2>&1 &
>
> to capture screen output, and disconnect the process from your 
> terminal(just in case the ssh session drops) put a nohup infront
>
> i.e.
> nohup wget 
> ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-06-06-EN.i
> so
> &
>> wget_knoppix.log
screen works well for the same effect of keeping a download going if
your ssh is dropped.  I really dig screen.

-jeff


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