SSH question

[M.Lewis]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> M.Lewis wrote:
>> I'm sure the answer to this question is incredibly simple and I have
>> looked through the archives, but I really don't know what to look for
>> (hence the poor subject).
>>
>> I want to ssh into a remote machine, start a download (say wget -c
>> xyz.iso), then close my ssh session, but still maintain the download
>> while I'm no longer logged into the remote machine.
>>
>> Can this be done? If so, how?
> 
> I find it easiest to use wget with the -b parameter along with nohup as in:
> 
> nohup wget -b -c http://blah.blah.com
> 

Thanks Ed and Ronald. That was exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks,
Mike


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